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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
sideburn/ˈsʌɪdbɜːn/

▶noun a strip of hair grown by a man down each side of the face in front of his ears.

– origin C19: orig. burnside, from the name of the American general Ambrose Burnside, who affected this style.

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