a. e. burnside

Burn·side

[burn-sahyd]
noun
Ambrose Everett, 1824–81, Union general in the American Civil War.
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burnsides
style of facial hair consisting of side whiskers and a mustache (but clean-shaven chin), 1875, from U.S. Army Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside (1824-1881) who wore them.
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A. e. burnside is always a great word to know.
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an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
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