Meanings
- participlepastsimple past and past participle of forelock
- not comparableHaving a forelock (lock of hair covering the forehead).
I have a $5 bill in my pocket — it's Lincoln's sour black head moled wrinkled, forelocked too, big eared, flags of announcements flying over the bill […]
1963, Allen Ginsberg, “American Change”, in Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights, page 682 more examples
I see the chariot, where, / Throughout the purple air, / The forelock'd monarch rides: / Arm'd like some antique vehicle for war, / Time, Hoary Time! I see thy scythed car, / In voiceless majesty,
1827, Alfred Tennyson, “Time: An Ode”, in Poems by Two Brothers, London: Macmillan, published 1893, page 1142016, thetravelerzone.com "Sardinia — A Paradise That Waits to be Explored," 2 May, 2016, https://web.archive.org/web/20160808041431/http://www.thetravelerszone.com/travel-destinations/sardinia-a-paradise-that-waits-to-be-explored/ The rare inhabitants of the island include the seemingly gravity-defying mouflon (a type of mountain sheep) and the shaggy-looking forelocked albino donkeys whose origins are mysterious.
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