Translation for '
lock of hair' from English to Dutch
NOUN | a lock of hair | locks of hair | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- A nest of four miniature coffins inscribed with her name and containing a lock of hair was found in the tomb of her grandson Tutankhamun – perhaps a memento from a beloved grandmother.
- As was customary at the time, requests for personal mementos from celebrities were often in the form of a lock of hair.
- He plucks a lock of hair, which started to burn as soon as he throws it.
- Knowing this, April, a girl from his school comes to him for help in finding a lock of hair that she believes to have been stolen.
- The most common kudumi (called Pin Kudumi) is identical to the śikhā, with a knotted lock of hair on the crown of the head and the rest of the hair shaved off.
- In Alexander Pope’s mock heroic poem The Rape of the Lock, Thalestris is the name of a ‘fierce’ supporter of Belinda, whose lock of hair is stolen - a ‘Virago’ who urges Belinda into combat to regain the lock.
- A locket is a pendant that opens to reveal a space used for storing a photograph or other small item such as a lock of hair.
- He was shown with only one lock of hair. His Roman equivalent was Occasio or Tempus.
- Other customs include having each of those attending the ceremony snip off a lock of hair, and encouraging the child to put a penny in a tzedakah box for each lock as it is cut.
- Voodoo dolls are an example of fetishes used in this way: the practitioner uses a lock of hair on the doll to create a link (also known as a "taglock") between the doll and the donor of this lock of hair.
- In addition to poems about Romani people with whom he identified (despite being of Serbian ancestry), because of his bohemian lifestyle, and the long poem on Vojvodina published as a separate book, he is especially well known for much recited at poetry gatherings and competitions poems about teenagers "Plavi čuperak" (A Blond Lock of Hair).
- They then burn the lock of hair.
- His appearance here is similar to his Golden Age look, with the addition of a single lock of hair, resembling Superman's S-shaped forelock.
- A lock of hair, which Douwes Dekker kept with him all his life, is still kept at the Multatuli Museum.
- Ireland went on to make more findings—a promissory note, a written declaration of Protestant faith, letters to Anne Hathaway (with a lock of hair attached), and to Queen Elizabeth—all supposedly in Shakespeare's hand.
- In 2019, documents were published revealing that Houssaye had kept the ring and a lock of hair.
- Prior to their marriage Mary had sent him a lock of her hair; in exchange, he wrote a poem for her entitled "The Answer of a Lock of Hair to the Inquiries of its Former Mistress".
- The abduction of Helen of Troy becomes here the theft of a lock of hair; the gods become minute sylphs; the description of Achilles' shield becomes an excursus on one of Belinda's petticoats.
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Contains translations by TU Chemnitz and Mr Honey's Business Dictionary (German-English only).
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