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See also: burnside

Burnside

Any of various towns in Scotland, or elsewhere in the Anglo-Saxon world, named after the Scottish ones.
A topographic surname for someone living near a burn (stream), or in any of the Scottish towns.

See also: Burnside

General Ambrose Burnside. Photo by Mathew Brady

burnside ‎(plural burnsides)

(especially in plural) A moustache, with whiskers on the cheeks but with no beard on the chin