What Are Long Sideburns Called?

What Are Long Sideburns Called?

Mutton chops are also sometimes called side curtains or side whiskers.

What are really long sideburns called?

Muttonchops. Muttonchops are sideburns that resemble pieces of mutton growing out from under the ears, down to the jaw.

Are sideburns called chops?

Within a few years of this, the facial hair down the side of one's cheeks, rather than being called “mutton chops” as it was at the time in some regions, began being called a modification of “burnsides”, “sideburns”, with the first documented instance of this being in 1887. ...

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