subs. (old).—A pendant curl; a LOVE-LOCK (q.v.). Fr., un crêvecœur.
1663. BUTLER, Hudibras, pt. I., c. 1., 253.
| Like Samson’s HEART-BREAKERS, it grew | |
| In time to make a nation rue. |
1694. DUNTON, Ladies’ Dictionary. A crevecœur, by some called HEARTBREAKER, is the curled lock at the nape of the neck, and generally there are two of them.
1816. JOHNSON, A Dictionary of the English Language, s.v. A cant name for a woman’s curls, supposed to break the hearts of all her lovers.
