Definitions
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- noun plural Long sideburns worn with a clean-shaven chin.
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- noun rare long, bushy
sideburns
Etymologies
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Examples
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I must acquaint you, said Mr Crotthers, clapping on the table so as to evoke a resonant comment of emphasis, old Glory Allelujurum was round again today, an elderly man with dundrearies, preferring through his nose a request to have word of Wilhelmina, my life, as he calls her.
Ulysses 2003
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But a dreadful change comes to _Uncle Bill_ -- he buys his clothes ready-made (at _La boutique fantasque_, for a guess, or possibly Mr. MALLABY-DEELEY'S), grows dundrearies and goes hopelessly off his game at golf.
Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920. Various
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I must acquaint you, said Mr Crotthers, clapping on the table so as to evoke a resonant comment of emphasis, old Glory Allelujurum was round again today, an elderly man with dundrearies, preferring through his nose a request to have word of Wilhelmina, my life, as he calls her.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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Origin: 1860–65; after the sideburns worn by actor Edward A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary, a character in the play Our American Cousin (1858) by Tom Taylor
October 26, 2007