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Facial hair that lets your jawline take credit for your personality.
means Strips of hair grown down the sides of a man's face in front of the ears, often connecting to a mustache or beard.
from Named after Ambrose Burnside, a Civil War general famous for his bushy chin-to-ear whiskers. His surname got flipped — 'Burnside' became 'sideburns' — because the style literally ran down the sides of his face, and the swapped word just stuck better than the original.
- named after
- Union general Ambrose Burnside, not the other way
- original term
- burnsides, later flipped to sideburns
- peak era
- elvis made them a rebellion uniform
- grooming rule
- must connect or legally just hair