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Meanings of burnside in English
Facial hair that has grown down the side of a man's face in front of the ears (especially when the rest of the beard is shaved off)
Synonyms
Examples for "sideburn"
Examples for "sideburn"
1
He laid the flat of it below his left sideburn.
2
The .308 round exploded perfectly on his right sideburn.
3
The sideburn, so carefully groomed for so long, lost its contours, an island swathed in seaweed.
4
His brown hair grew lavishly onto his face, happy curlicues of sideburn and mustache and beard.
5
Except for the occasional hint of a Regency sideburn, however, his art reflects nothing of Georgian London.
1
Then she went downstairs and found her father eating a mutton chop.
2
And he was very particular that the mutton chop should be well cooked.
3
The bones below the neck, broiled, make a good mutton chop.
4
Really, I'd feel exactly like a mutton chop in a tissue-paper flounce, myself.
5
So am I. I quite forgot that mutton chop of yours to-day, doctor.
1
He had neatly-trimmed side-whiskers and moustache, while Johnson had a full beard.
2
Jeremiah blinked solemnly at Roscoe Orlando's florid side-whiskers and wide sensuous mouth.
3
There is a slight difference here, too, for this man wears side-whiskers.
4
The word has an Early Victorian sound that suggests side-whiskers and leg-of-mutton trousers.
5
Even stout and stubborn old gentlemen with side-whiskers have their uses.
Usage of burnside in English
1
At the rail stood Ridgely Greathouse, big, florid, his burnside whiskers twitching.
2
He wrote in a faint scrawl, Help me to that burnside.
3
I forsook the burnside, crossed another dyke, and almost before I knew was on a rough lawn.
4
Mr Burnside says the question then is: where will these people go?
5
Mr Burnside said he would meet the paramilitary group again if asked.
6
Burnside hoped this might be the beginning of a great Union victory.
7
Terrible slaughter under Burnside at Fredericksburg; crushing defeat at Chancellorsville under Hooker.
8
There's no Althea Burnside living in De Pere, I know that much.
9
Besides these corps, General Burnside was bringing his troops into the line.
10
Behind him, Charles Burnside continues his slow, tottery progress toward the men's.
11
The four men talked about Burnside's plan to cross the Rappahannock again.
12
Burnside was sent with the Ninth Corps to Falmouth on the Rappahannock.
13
Burnside quickly formed and began the execution of an advance against Richmond.
14
The third Union General had gone down before Lee-McClellan, Pope and Burnside.
15
But Burnside did not move, and the somber blanket of winter thickened.
16
Burnside jokingly suggested that Houdini should make one of the elephants disappear.
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