A few remain unstable, perhaps because they rarely occur in the singular - words for cuffs, shutters, boots, and sideburns.
Fashions come and go—flared trousers, sideburns, mini-skirts— and we now have balanced budgets, but obviously not as attractive.
They were wearing, perhaps, jeans; their hair was long; they had sideburns.
I distinctly saw his sideburns move in the wind.
We tend to condemn a young man because of what he refers to as "drainpipes"and"sideburns"and"winkle pickers", the clothes he wears and the length of his hair.
He has also performed surgery to replace sideburns and moustaches.
Of medium build, his gray moustache and long sideburns framed his semi-bald, handsome head.
The hair is grown full and long over the jaw and chin, meeting with the sideburns but lacking a moustache.
