Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rib-piece of mutton for broiling or frying, having the bone cut, or chopped off at the small end. The name is also extended to other small pieces cut for broiling.
- Having a form narrow and prolonged at one end and rounded at the other, like that of a mutton-chop.
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Examples
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EJ Morten6 Warburton Street, Didsbury, Greater Manchester M20 6WA, 0161-445 7629So delightfully old-fashioned is Eric Morten's bookshop that you might feel almost awkward to be browsing it without a weskit and mutton-chop whiskers.
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At 65, Stoke-on-Trent's most famous mutton-chop wearer is back with a new album.
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Swiveling on a stool with a stein of Hansa Draft in his fist, a stout fellow in safari shorts and with gray mutton-chop whiskers was chatting emphatically in German with the young bartender.
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Swiveling on a stool with a stein of Hansa Draft in his fist, a stout fellow in safari shorts and with gray mutton-chop whiskers was chatting emphatically in German with the young bartender.
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Jeannie got out, wearing her black dress with big mutton-chop sleeves and full skirt down to her ankles with black cowboy boots.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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They have faces, 19th-century faces with mutton-chop sideburns alongside their laid-open skulls, and expressions of tranquility.
Boing Boing 2007
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Jeannie was wearing cowboy boots and a long full black skirt with a top that had mutton-chop sleeves.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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If he's right, then the 1970's macro that I have to teach for the AP econ test I feel like I should come to class in mutton-chop sideburns, with bell-bottoms, and a paisley shirt is just all the more out of date.
Jackson Hole Macro, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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Jeannie got out, wearing her black dress with big mutton-chop sleeves and full skirt down to her ankles with black cowboy boots.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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Jeannie was wearing cowboy boots and a long full black skirt with a top that had mutton-chop sleeves.
Silent Scream: An Anna Travis Mystery Lynda La Plante 2009
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