favori noun2 •A favorite.With characteristic humour, Ninon divided her admirers into three classes: her martyrs, her caprices and her favoris, and into one or other of these classes fell nearly every gallant in Paris. — 1908 •[in the plural] (no longer used) Sideburns or side whiskers.Carefully combing out his favoris with a broken comb and greasing them with perfumed pomade flat over his sunken cheekbones, he fairly wriggled with his new sense of security and bodily comfort. — 1915 formsfavoris