fore-lock

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a long tuft of hair worn by some Indian warriors with otherwise cropped or shaven heads as a challenge to their enemies.

See: scalp-lock(def 2.)

Quotations

1922

They took his fore-lock and his teepee and his last string of wampum. And the old snob, of course, would never forgive them.