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During a slight uptick of beardedness during the early 1960s, perhaps riding on the Civil War Centennial, the AP described “a strange new craze” of glued-on facial hair.

From Slate • Dec. 3, 2014

Their composite paunchiness, beardedness, scragginess, spectacledness, impressed me unfavourably when, from my Hosea-carriage, I first beheld them.

From The Red Planet by Locke, William John