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Definition of Side-whiskers
1. 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).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Side-whiskers
Literary usage of Side-whiskers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Student's Reference Work for Teachers, Students and Families by Chandler Belden Beach, Frank Morton McMurry (1917)
"It is about three feet in length, has a lean body with long legs and large hairy
paws, heavy fur of gray mottled with brown, long side-whiskers that stand ..."
2. About Stage Folks by William Ellis Horton (1902)
"Edwin Forrest, once known as America's greatest tragedian, used to play Virginius,
Metamora, Hamlet and like characters, with side whiskers, moustache and ..."
3. A World Worth While: A Record of "auld Acquaintance" by William Allen Rogers (1922)
"Side whiskers had gone out beyond recall at the period which A Hazard of New ...
Fulkerson in real life had long side whiskers. Mr. Howells was a realist, ..."
4. Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University by Zelia Nuttall (1904)
"A critical examination of the sculptured ocelot discloses that the large side
whiskers at each side of its head are undoubtedly purely conventional. ..."
5. Standard Or Head-dress?: An Historical Essay on a Relic of Ancient Mexico by Zelia Nuttall (1904)
"A critical examination of the sculptured ocelot discloses that the large side
whiskers at each side of its head are undoubtedly purely conventional. ..."
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