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noun
A cut of sheep's meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A facial hairstyle consisting of long, usually shaped sideburns extending well below the earlobes without a beard.
He had a fresh complexion, eyes of that common uncertain shade of gray, and was closely shaven except for the incipient muttonchops on his ruddy cheeks.