subs. (common).—1. A sheep’s head.
2. (common).—See quot. Also MUTTON-CHOP WHISKERS.
1865. Evening Citizen, 28 July. Mr. Steinmetz shaved close, leaving no hair on his face save a short pair of MUTTON-CHOP whiskers.
1878. BESANT and RICE, By Celia’s Arbour, ii. His whiskers, equally white, were cut to the old-fashioned regulation MUTTON-CHOP, very much like what has now come into fashion again. They advanced into the middle of the check, and were then squared off in a line which met the large stiff collar below at an angle of forty-five.
1879. W. H. THOMSON, Whitecross and the Bench, 62. The equally well-trained whiskers, which were of the old military style known as ‘MUTTON-CHOPS.’
1892. MILLIKEN, ’Arry Ballads, p. 53. White aprons, and trim MUTTON-CHOPPER each side.
