Sentence:  The face which emerged was not reassuring. […]. He was not a mongol but there was a deficiency of a sort there, and it was not made more pretty by a latter-day hair cut which involved eccentrically <WSD>long</WSD> elf-locks and oiled black curls. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (lengthy) Having much distance from one terminating point on an object or an area to another terminating point (usually applies to horizontal dimensions; see Usage Notes below).