Definition of "side-whiskers" [side-whiskers]

• Whiskers worn usually long on the sides of a man's face. (noun-plural)

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• "Popular culture insists on a near-exact similarity, and so the actor who turns up in a period drama is simply a 21st-century man deviously arrayed in side-whiskers and a frock coat and betraying himself from one intonation to the next."
• "Doré's portrayal of a weak-chinned fop in a white suit, enormous side-whiskers and broad-brimmed hat was so potent that the image was subsequently reissued in America as a send-up of a Southerner before the Civil War."
• "About five feet seven inches in height; strongly built, sallow complexion, black hair, a little bald in the centre, bushy, black side-whiskers and moustache; tinted glasses, slight infirmity of speech."