BURNSIDE

sideburn, burnside, mutton chop, side-whiskers

(noun) 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)

Burnside, A. E. Burnside, Ambrose Everett Burnside

(noun) United States general in the American Civil War who was defeated by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Fredericksburg (1824-1881)

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Proper noun

Burnside

Any of various towns in Scotland, or elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon world, named after the Scottish ones.

A suburb of Christchurch, New Zealand.

An industrial suburb of Dunedin, New Zealand.

A topographic surname for someone living near a burn (stream), or in any of the Scottish towns.

Anagrams

• Burdines, Rubenids, sideburn

Etymology

From Ambrose Burnside

Noun

burnside (plural burnsides)

(especially in plural) A moustache, with whiskers on the cheeks but with no beard on the chin

Usage notes

This was later reformed as sideburn, see there.

Anagrams

• Burdines, Rubenids, sideburn

Source: Wiktionary



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