Jisho

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Noun
1. cutting a person's sidelocks; evenly cut sidelocks (symbol of adulthood for noblewomen in the Heian era); ritual of cutting the sidelocks (coming-of-age ceremony for women from about 1568-1867)Archaic
Other forms
鬢そぎ 【びんそぎ】鬢枇 【びんそぎ】鬢曽木 【びんそぎ】鬢除ぎ 【びんそぎ】

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