forelock

otsatukka The part of a person's hairstyle which covers the forehead.
1674, (w), (w), Book IV, lines 300-303, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_IV

His fair large front and eye sublime declared / Absolute rule; and hyacinthine locks / Round from his parted forelock manly hung / Clustering, but not beneath his shoulders broad:

Doth he not know that GOD seeth? / Assuredly. Verily, if he forbear not, we will drag him by the forelock, / the lying, sinful forelock. / And let him call his council to assistance: / we also will call the infernal guards to cast him into hell.

Warm with the blood of lads I know / Comes east the sighing air. / / It fanned their temples, filled their lungs, / Scattered their forelocks free;

This little boy, still flicking his head to one side between sentences though the long blond forelock that once excused the tic had been cut (..)

(..) the gates themselves slowly parted, there appeared a large horse's head, with a plaited forelock under a decorated yoke, and slowly there rolled into the road a small cart, like those driven by horse-dealers, and higglers.