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sideburns

[sahyd-burnz] / ˈsaɪdˌbɜrnz /




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An era remembered now, if at all, for leisure suits, burnt-orange shag carpeting and muttonchop sideburns, it marked the passage from progress to reaction.

From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2025

With sideburns and the sharpest mod feather cut, he even looked good in Lycra.

From BBC ● May 13, 2025

However, he redeems himself as an administrator by writing impenetrable new rules on the size of officers’ sideburns and mustaches.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 28, 2025

“Lauren is sure she doesn’t know what Gladstone’s sideburns looked like. What did Gladstone do? How racist was he? Does she have a problematic cat? This is perhaps not her most pressing issue.”

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

His head was large and round, displaying for­midable sideburns, a stylish goatee and some of the finest whiskers of the cat world, thick, long and white.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel




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