Noun
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
Also written 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】