Between 25 and 30, you’re trying to decide how much longer before you start growing a beard and calling yourself ‘Daddy.
In the video his face is a little thinner, his beard ever so slightly longer.
“It seems that the different standard is (based on) the length of the beard and outwardly display of piety,” Hamdani said.
Hauchard converted to Islam in high school at 17, and is said to have suddenly begun wearing a beard and djellaba.
One of them fetched Manuel, nicknamed Barba (Spanish for beard), who was, of course, clean shaven.
The hands of Hank Rainer fell suddenly, but now lower than his beard.
I would not let the smallest child stroke his father's beard roughly.
Look you, Sir; a beard is something in itself; a beard is half the doctor.
In his father's face this could not be detected, on account of the beard.
But then, if people grew savage, they might pull my beard out by the roots.
Old English beard "beard," from West Germanic *barthaz (cf. Old Frisian berd, Middle Dutch baert, Old High German bart, German bart), seemingly from PIE *bhardh-a- "beard" (cf. Old Church Slavonic brada, Lithuanian barzda, and perhaps Latin barba "beard").
The Greek and Roman Churches have long disputed about the beard. While the Romanists have at different times practised shaving, the Greeks, on the contrary, have strenuously defended the cause of long beards. Leo III. (795 AD) was the first shaved Pope. Pope Gregory IV., after the lapse of only 30 years, fulminated a Bull against bearded priests. In the 12th century the prescription of the beard was extended to the laity. Pope Honorius III. to disguise his disfigured lip, allowed his beard to grow. Henry I. of England was so much moved by a sermon directed against his beard that he resigned it to the barber. Frederick Barbarossa is said to have been equally tractable. [Tom Robinson, M.D., "Beards," "St. James's Magazine," 1881]Pubic hair sense is from 1600s (but cf. neþir berd "pubic hair," late 14c.); in the 1811 "Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue," the phrase beard-splitter is defined as, "A man much given to wenching" (see beaver).
c.1300, "to grow or have a beard," from beard (n.). The sense of "confront boldly and directly" is from Middle English phrases such as rennen in berd "oppose openly" (c.1200), reproven in the berd "to rebuke directly and personally" (c.1400), on the same notion as modern slang get in (someone's) face. Related: Bearded; bearding.
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: She says Rollins was supposed to beard for him
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