burnsides
Example Sentences
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It is generally believed by people who speak flippantly of 'side-burns,' 'sideboards,' etc., that burnsides were so named because they cluttered up both sides of their proprietor's countenance.
From Time Magazine Archive
The old bedesman delighted “to daunder down the burnsides and green shaws.”
From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer
He wears burnsides and they are very becoming.
From Green Valley by Katharine Reynolds
His shoulders were massive and square, his chin and mouth were square, his burnsides were square cut, and he had a square head and wore a square-topped derby.
From By Advice of Counsel by Arthur Cheney Train
Nobody cares a rap whether Saunders, middle-aged and unheroic bachelor, with his precise little "burnsides," won the heart of the pert Miss Pelham, precise in character if not always so in type.
From The Man from Brodney's by George Barr McCutcheon
