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c1600 Timon (1980) ii. ii. 26 My wiskers hanging o're the ouerlipp.

1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue ii. 259 Some spruce yonker, with a starcht beard, and his whiskers turn'd vp.

1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis Pref. The rank Mustachos into whiskers grown.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 390 His [sc. Persian's] Beard is Cut neatly, and the Whiskers..encouraged from one Ear to the other, in fashion of an Half-Moon on the upper Lip, with only a decent Peak on the under.

1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 177 What grew on my upper Lip..I had trimm'd into a large Pair of Mahometan Whiskers.

1808 W. Wilson Hist. Dissenting Churches I. 141 The men members wore whiskers upon their upper lips.

1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 482 Whiskers, the hair on the upper lip—as until lately, I believe, all over England. Now, the hair under the ears—sometimes under the eyes also—bear[s] this term, and the labial comæ, are called moustaches.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xl. 441 A tall fellow, with..very thick bushy whiskers meeting under his chin.

1843 R. S. Surtees Handley Cross I. iii. 51 He grew whiskers under his chin.

1878 W. Besant & J. Rice By Celia's Arbour I. ii. 18 His whiskers..were cut to the old-fashioned regulation ‘mutton-chop’. They advanced into the middle of the cheek, and were then squared off in a line which met the large stiff collar below at an angle of forty-five.