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Meanings of sideburn 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 "burnside"
Examples for "burnside"
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
Mr Burnside says the question then is: where will these people go?
4
Mr Burnside said he would meet the paramilitary group again if asked.
5
Burnside hoped this might be the beginning of a great Union victory.
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 sideburn in English
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.
6
The boat-tail caught the man just below the left sideburn, half an inch in front of the earhole.
7
Salomon Meijer stroked his sideburn.
8
I think the change in vertical position of the bottom of the sideburn isn't a terrible representation of the hair.
9
A small black hole appeared to be neatly bored into the exact line where his high-cut sideburn had once been.
10
Good sharpshooters say they aim for a spot just in front of the ear, right where a close sideburn might end.
11
He looks down, rubs his cheek with one hand, fingertips scratch absently at a graying sideburn as he considers Robyn's face.
12
Using the sideburn trimmer, I cut a swath from my forehead, across the top of my skull, and down the back.
13
Ben, 30, had a rowdy head of red hair and an elegant sideburn-goatee constellation befitting the British academic he was in the private world.
14
One of them, a short, muscular kid with long sideburns, stepped forward.
15
He's currently sporting mutton-chop sideburns after Walsh won the World Indoor Championships.
16
Except Jude had these long straight sideburns that tapered below the ear.
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Frequent collocations
Sideburn through the time