Vandyke

[ van-dahyk ]

/ vænˈdaɪk /

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noun

Sir Anthony. Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.

Vandyke beard.

Vandyke collar.

Printing. a proof having white lines on a brown ground or vice versa, made from a negative for a plate.

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Also van·dyke (for defs. 2, 3) .

Words nearby Vandyke

van Dongen, Van Doren, Van Druten, Van Duyn, Van Dyck, Vandyke, Vandyke beard, Vandyke brown, Vandyke collar, Van Dyken, vane

How to use Vandyke in a sentence

Before Matthew VanDyke was a gun-toting rebel in Libya, he was just a 29-year-old with OCD, afraid of sugar.
‘Point and Shoot’ Captures the Birth of a Warrior on Film|Lloyd Grove|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Curry was intrigued and, unlike the other filmmakers VanDyke consulted, he had time to take on a major project.
‘Point and Shoot’ Captures the Birth of a Warrior on Film|Lloyd Grove|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“From the start it was a collaborative effort,” VanDyke says.
‘Point and Shoot’ Captures the Birth of a Warrior on Film|Lloyd Grove|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
And VanDyke and Fischer had dinner with war correspondent Steven Sotloff mere weeks before he was kidnapped.
‘Point and Shoot’ Captures the Birth of a Warrior on Film|Lloyd Grove|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST

VanDyke confirmed the attack on his website, writing that SEA had emailed him a blackmail threat.
The Kardashian Look-Alike Trolling for Assad|Noah Shachtman, Michael Kennedy|October 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Her dress is what is termed a Vandyke robe; it fits closely, and is scolloped round the neck, arms, and at the bottom.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808|Lt-Col. Pinkney
Vandyke, Reynolds, Titian—he deemed these the great triumvirate of portraiture.
Art in England|Dutton Cook
And in the Flemish school, Rubens and Vandyke made their designs for the most part either in colours or in chiaroscuro.
Seven Discourses on Art|Joshua Reynolds
"Ill taught reason" would lead us to prefer a portrait by Denner to one by Titian or Vandyke.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXVIII. February, 1843. Vol. LIII.|Various
He, also, had changed his attire, and looked very handsome in his curling Vandyke beard of the cut which artists affect.
The Incendiary|W. A. (William Augustine) Leahy