peot

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1. pluralplural onlySidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews.

   With box or beads or peyiss, / Let each do his own thing.

   1968, Jewish Currents, volume 22, page 18

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   'Manny? Sweet? Manny doesn't do sweet.' 'Every man does sweet, Max. Even weird ones with payess.'

   2006, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights

   He showed me the items in his den, or “trophy room” — the cardboard cutout of Sinatra wearing Jewish payos, the portrait of King made entirely of jelly beans, his Emmy for Lifetime Achievement.

   2015 August 29, Mark Leibovich, The New York Times

   Synonyms: sidecurl