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whiskerandos humorous.|hwɪskəˈrændɒs|
[f. whisker, with ending in imitation of Spanish words.]
Name of a character (Don Ferolo Whiskerandos) in Sheridan's play ‘The Critic’ (1779): hence allusively (more commonly in the form whiskerando, the -s being taken as sign of pl.), a (heavily) whiskered man. Hence whiskerandoed |-dəʊd| a., whiskered.
1807Sporting Mag. XXIX. 179 The mustachio salute is not only sanctioned now by the dowagers of the whiskerando tribe, but even voted by the young smooth-lipped belles to be ‘funny enough’. 1831Jekyll Corr. (1894) 287 To the great dismay of a whiskerandos, second brother of my lord. 1838Southey Doctor clvi. V. 227 To..what extravangances would the whiskerandoed macaronies of Bond Street..proceed, if the beard..were..to ‘make the man!’ 1894Stevenson St. Ives ii, Some of these old whiskerandos, originally peasants, trained since boyhood in victorious armies,..could ill brook their change of circumstance. |