Crossword clues for sideburns
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880, American English, alteration of burnsides (q.v).
Wiktionary
n. facial hair reaching from the top of the head down the side of the face to the side of the chin.
Wikipedia
Sideburns, sideboards, or side whiskers are patches of facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to below the ears. The term sideburns is a 19th-century corruption of the original burnsides, named after American Civil War general Ambrose Burnside, a man known for his unusual facial hairstyle that connected thick sideburns by way of a moustache, but left the chin clean-shaven. "Burnsides" became "sideburns" probably because of their location on the side of the face.
Usage examples of "sideburns".
But the tumult on the other campuses and the antiauthoritarian tenor of the times could be measured by the length of the sideburns creeping down the faces of Carolina men.
It became my credo, the central theme of my life, but if it had not been for the intolerance and pigheadedness I exhibited with such grandiosity in those years and the weird sideburns and holier-than-thou attitude that I paraded around with, I would have entered into my maturity as uninterested in the world of ideas as any other Southerner.
In barbershops Latin men stood talking in button-down shirts with collars open and sleeves folded two cuff-lengths to the lower forearm, apparel of an earlier Madison Avenue, that somber street now freshly regimented, paunchy and gay in Kool-Aid fiesta colors and Spanish sideburns.
And get in a fight there with one a the hillbillies in his sideburns and leather jacket that hangs out there and tries to take the foureyed chick home with him.
He was clean shaven except for the rather unusual long sideburns that grew to the middle of his jaw.
She took his face between her hands, his long sideburns caressing her palms, and gazed deeply into his eyes.
Angela gripped his sideburns, flashing anger of her own in response to his.
Seated in the central chair and arguing with the civilian barber about the relative length of sideburns was a compactly built young soldier in Lugard green and blue.
On the other side of Nash, down the bar is some young guy with sideburns, wearing a good pin-striped suit.
And the sideburns guy grabs the gal by a handful of hair and pulls her away from his mouth.
I ask if this is because I stood within spitting distance of the young sideburns guy who died in the bar on Third Avenue.
As the pot-emptier straightened, El saw that the man was of middling years and possessed of raven-dark hair, good looks framed by razor-edged sideburns, one normal.
Of course, she thought, her eyes once again wandering to his sleeping face, once his destestable sideburns were gone he would prove devastating.
The pad of her thumb moved slowly along his jaw, back and forth, up over his beard-roughened cheek to his sideburns, then, slowly, all the way down to his chin.
Their triangular sideburns reached their jawlines, and their conical pompadours extended maybe twenty centimeters in front of their foreheads.