forelocked

forelocked

English

Verb

forelocked

1. simple past tense and past participle of forelock

Adjective

forelocked (not comparable)

1. Having a forelock (lock of hair covering the forehead).
   • 1827, Alfred Tennyson, "Time: An Ode" in Poems by Two Brothers, London: Macmillan, 1893, p. 114,

     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,

   • 1963, Allen Ginsberg, "American Change" in Reality Sandwiches, San Francisco: City Lights, p. 68,

     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 […]

   • 2016, thetravelerzone.com "Sardinia — A Paradise That Waits to be Explored," 2 May, 2016,

     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.