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side whiskers

side whiskers noun: sideburns.

Noun

side whiskers pl (plural only)

  1. (dated, plural, plural-only) sideburns
    • The first who entered was a little ribston-pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.1904 February 27, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of Black Peter”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC

Forms of side whiskers

alternative formsidewhiskers
alternative formside-whiskers

Questions about side whiskers

What does side whiskers mean?
Side whiskers means sideburns.
What part of speech is side whiskers?
Side whiskers is a noun.

Words near side whiskers in the dictionary

  1. side valves
  2. side wall
  3. side walls
  4. side wheeler
  5. side wheelers
  6. side whiskers
  7. side with
  8. Side X
  9. side-affect
  10. side-bet
  11. side-bets

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