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Dreadlocks

Dreadlocks, also known as dreads or locs, are a hairstyle made of rope-like strands of hair. Locs can form naturally in very curly hair, or they can be created with techniques like twisting, backcombing, or crochet.

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Etymology

History

Africa

By culture

Hair discrimination

Guinness Book of World Records

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Dreadlocks

Nodes252
Edges251
Triples413
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.007937
Components1

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Dreadlocks

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related to Africa · 75
Dreadlocks → Abrahamic, According, Africa, African, African Pentecostal, Africans, Aladura, Although, At Pretoria High School, Bahatowie, BC, BCE, Black, CE, Central, Christian, Christianity, Cultural History, Dada, East
related to Rastafari · 43
Dreadlocks → AD, African, Another African, Babylon, Bahatowie, Bible, Biblical, Black, Boboshanti Order, British, During, Ethiopia, Ethiopian, Ethiopians, European, Eventually, Haile Selassie, In, It, Italian
related to Australia · 37
Dreadlocks → Aboriginal, Aboriginal Australian, Aboriginal Australians, Although Brim, Americas, Australia, Australia's, Australian Aboriginal, Barron River, Black, Bob Marley, Brim, Buluwai, Bush Doctor, Eastern Australia, Foreigners, Gold Coast, He, In, In North Central Australia
related to North America and Europe · 34
Dreadlocks → African, Afro-Britons, Alice Walker, American, Beautiful, Black, Black America, Black American, Black Americans, Black Power, Britain, Each, Eurocentric, Europe, European, For, Freeform, From, In, It
related to 20th century into present day · 33
Dreadlocks → According, African-American, Americans, Amsterdam, As, Babylon, Birmingham, Black, Britons, Bronner, Caribbean, Caribbeans, Communities, Dell Clark, Europe's Black, Hippies, However, In, Jamaican, Jamaicans
related to United States · 29
Dreadlocks → According, As, Assembly Bill, Black, Black Hair Independence Day, Black-owned, California, Cornell University, CROWN, CROWN Act, Despite, Good Hair Study, Governor Gavin Newsom, July, Likewise, Millennials, National CROWN Day, New York, Noliwe Rooks, On
related to Hinduism · 25
Dreadlocks → According, Angala Parameshvari, Bhairava-Shiva, CE, Cutting, Ganga, Hinduism, However, In, India, Indian, Maharashtra, Pune, Ralph Trueb, Renuka, Savitha Uttam Thorat, Shiva, Shiva's, Some, Southern India
related to Etymology · 20
Dreadlocks → According, Africans, America, An, Ayana Byrd, Black Hair, British, God, Hair Story, In, Jamaican Creole, Lori Tharps, Mau Mau, Nazirite, Other, Rastafarian, Roots, Some, The, Untangling
related to 19th century · 18
Dreadlocks → Africanize Islam, Baye Fall, Both, CE, Cheikh Ibra Fall, In Senegal, Islam, Islamic, Jamaican Rastas, Male, Mouride, Mouride Brotherhood, Muslims, Senegal, Shaykh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, Sufi, This, Western
related to Buddhism · 16
Dreadlocks → Archeologists, Buddhism, Burma, Cambodia, For Buddhists, Hevajra Tantra, In, Ngagpas, Passayana, Shiva, Stung Treng, The, This, Tibet, Vajrayana Buddhism, Within Tibetan Buddhism

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hair black locs wear people women wearing african culture hairstyles natural also spiritual rastafari worn long beauty hairstyle movement locked

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
braidsinstance ofAfrican-American dress and hairstyles0.80text
Lauryn Hillinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
Lil Wayneinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
T-Paininstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
Snoop Dogginstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
J-Coleinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
Wiz Khalifainstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
Chief Keefinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
Lil Joninstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
and other artists wear dreadlocksinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
which further popularized the hairstyle in the 1990sinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text
early 2000sinstance ofand African facial features.Hip-hop and rap artists0.80text

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