English

Noun

elflock ‎(plural elflocks)

1. (now rare) A lock of hair that is tangled.
   • 1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 17, in The China Governess:

     The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically long elf-locks and oiled black curls.

References

• Random House Dictionary, 2nd Edition. Unabridged, 1987.