Vandyke beard

noun

1. a short, pointed beard.

Vandyke beard

/ ˈvændaɪk /

noun

1. Often shortened to: Vandyke. a short pointed beard

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vandyke beard¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

His wire-rimmed glasses, Vandyke beard, and thick head of dark hair combined to give him a striking resemblance to the man then commanding Soviet Russia’s Red Army, Leon Trotsky.

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He wore a mustache and a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard.

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In stark contrast, Charles Lang Freer made his money in Detroit from the manufacture of railroad cars, and was “reclusive, fastidious, idiosyncratic, lean in frame, with an immaculately groomed Vandyke beard.”

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Mr. Birnbaum wore a thick Vandyke beard and a Panama hat.

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Gray stubble encroached on his Vandyke beard, the tabs of his oxford were undone, and the shirt had a hole by the belt.

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