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Vandyke beard   /vˌændˈaɪk bɪrd/   Listen
Vandyke beard

noun
1.
A short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke).  Synonym: vandyke.






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"Vandyke beard" Quotes from Famous Books



... salver. Mr. Cornish seems to be very exclusive, his meals being served in his rooms; and even his barber has instructions to call upon him each morning. One wonders why the barber is called in so frequently, until one marks the smooth-shaven cheeks above the close-clipped, pointed, black, Vandyke beard. He is withal very cordial ...
— Aladdin & Co. - A Romance of Yankee Magic • Herbert Quick

... was hurriedly presented to each of them in turn. First, there was Don Esteban de Mendouca, a tall, thin, cadaverous-looking man, with intensely dark eyes, a thin crop of hair, exceedingly long moustache with thin, drooping ends, and a pointed Vandyke beard, all dark, but beginning to be sprinkled with grey. Then there was Dona Christina, his wife, a small woman, as dark as her husband, but with a perfectly preserved complexion—fat, and fifty if a day. Next there was Don Pedro de Mendouca, Don Esteban's ...
— A Middy of the King - A Romance of the Old British Navy • Harry Collingwood



Words linked to "Vandyke beard" :   face fungus, beard, vandyke, whiskers



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