Vandyke
Americannoun
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Sir Anthony. Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
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Printing. a proof having white lines on a brown ground or vice versa, made from a negative for a plate.
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To produce the detailed anatomical drawings in “Gray’s Anatomy,” Henry Vandyke Carter relied on human cadavers.
From New York Times ● Aug. 2, 2023
With help from the local sheriff’s department, police identified Daryl Vandyke, 55, as a person of interest and took him into custody by 11 a.m.
From Fox News ● Jul. 31, 2021
Martin Van Buren is thinly disguised as “Lord Vandyke Maneuvre.”
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 25, 2016
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.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 11, 2015
He wore a mustache and a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
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