Vandyke beard

American  

noun

1. a short, pointed beard.

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Vandyke beard British  

/ ˈvændaɪk /

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of Vandyke beard

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.

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