elflock

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   archaic, usually plural: a tangled or matted lock of hair, once fancifully attributed to elves

   Wind and neglect had twisted her hair into bristling elflocks.

Formed from elf + lock. Folklore blamed nocturnal elves for tangling the hair of people and animals, so the term came to denote the resulting matted locks whether or not magic was implied.

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