Vandyke beard
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of Vandyke beard
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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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.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 4, 2019
Miller, who wore a trademark Vandyke beard and had a fondness for cigars, died at New York City's Lenox Hill hospital after a brief illness, his daughter, Margaret Miller Reuther, told the New York Times.
From Reuters ● Aug. 2, 2010
IT didn’t take long for Chip, a Tennessee fainting goat sporting a luxuriant Vandyke beard and an impressive pair of curlicue horns, to live up to his breed’s name.
From New York Times ● Jan. 7, 2010
Inside, Ambassador Gilchrist, a 48-year-old Scot with a Vandyke beard, reacted in the approved pukka sahib tradition.
From Time Magazine Archive
The office door opened and a tall, fleshless man with hard-etched features, wearing horn-rim glasses and a fuzzy Vandyke beard, appeared.
From "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Philip K. Dick
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