payos
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n. Sidelocks common among Haredi boys and men.
Example Sentences
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"It is customary for Chasidic Jews to allow their peyus to grow out."
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"Some of the boys have peot but some don't." (Glinert)
Languages of Origin
- Textual Hebrew
- Yiddish
Etymology
פאות pe'ot / peyes 'corners'
- Jews: Jews of diverse religious backgrounds and organizational involvements
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- The New Joys of Yiddish, by Leo Rosten and Lawrence Bush (New York, 2003[1968]).
- The JPS Dictionary of Jewish Words, by Joyce Eisenberg and Ellen Scolnic, (Philadelphia, 2001).
- The Joys of Hebrew, by Lewis Glinert (New York, 1992).
- Dictionary of Jewish Usage: A Popular Guide to the Use of Jewish Terms, by Sol Steinmetz (Lanham, MD, 2005).
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Alternative Spellings
payess, peot, payot, peyos, payus, peyus
Notes
singular: 'pe'a'
The prohibition against shaving the side of the man's head derives from Leviticus 19:27.
'Peyot' can also refer to the corners of a field, which should be left for the poor to glean.
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