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- noun
sidelocks worn byHasidic andOrthodox maleJews
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Examples
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I see two proper frummers with fur hats and payess at the rally.
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I see two proper frummers with fur hats and payess at the rally.
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Anyone who wears a chador or the payess in these parts would look at much out of place as Rolly in a hula skirt.
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“Because he blamed them for putting him in payess and making him unlovable?”
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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"She got a huge tattoo," reports Baruch Herzfeld to a gangly copper-haired cook in full beard and payess.
JTA - Recent News Ben Harris 2010
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Manny has cut his hair (again) to about 2004 length, except for payess-dreads at the ears.
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Manny has cut his hair (again) to about 2004 length, except for payess-dreads at the ears.
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He almost didn’t believe the claims of the black-hatted man, who looked, with his payess, suit, and apron also to be from World War II—albeit, The Sorrow and the Pity rather than The Great Escape.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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He almost didn’t believe the claims of the black-hatted man, who looked, with his payess, suit, and apron also to be from World War II—albeit, The Sorrow and the Pity rather than The Great Escape.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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He almost didn’t believe the claims of the black-hatted man, who looked, with his payess, suit, and apron also to be from World War II—albeit, The Sorrow and the Pity rather than The Great Escape.
A Happy Marriage Rafael Yglesias 2009
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