Origin of Phrases - S
Sideburns
While people had been sporting some form side-facial hair for some time, it wasn't until Civil War General Ambrose Burnside that a name was given to them. Burnside, the commander of the Union's Army of the Potomac, had a popular set of "mutton-chop side whiskers." Others started emulating him by growing a set of their own, and they soon came to be known as "burnsides." The name eventually morphed into its current for, sideburns.