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  • noun sidelocks worn by Hasidic and Orthodox male Jews

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Examples

  • I see two proper frummers with fur hats and payess at the rally.

    Green and yellow flags « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • I see two proper frummers with fur hats and payess at the rally.

    July « 2006 « Squares of Wheat 2006

  • Anyone who wears a chador or the payess in these parts would look at much out of place as Rolly in a hula skirt.

    Appropriate to wear shorts in Mexico? 2005

  • “Because he blamed them for putting him in payess and making him unlovable?”

    Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006

  • "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

  • Manny has cut his hair (again) to about 2004 length, except for payess-dreads at the ears.

    WFMU's recent playlists 2008

  • Manny has cut his hair (again) to about 2004 length, except for payess-dreads at the ears.

    WFMU's recent playlists 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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