| 词汇 | sideburns |
| 词源 | sideburns. General Ambrose Everett Burnside had a flair for doing the daring, innovative thing in war as well as fashion. Despite his many failures as a general he went on to be elected governor of Rhode Island for three terms, 1866–69, and United States senator for two terms, from 1875 until his death in 1881, at age 57. From the constant publicity given him, the flamboy- ant Burnside hat that he wore in the field came to be called after the big bluff and hearty general, as were the burnside whiskers, or burnsides, he affected. Innovative as ever, he had chosen to wear the hair on his face in a new way, shaving his chin smooth below a full mustache and big muttonchops, or sidebar whis- kers. Thousands imitated him and his burnsides, because they were on only the sides of the face, were soon called sideburns, this reversal of Burnside’s name having nothing to do with his military reversals, though that might have been appropriate. |
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