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
He was a tall man of military bearing, who wore a black leather jacket, a Vandyke beard and a little gold button in one earlobe.
From Time Magazine Archive
He wore a mustache and a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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