Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One of a series of relatively large points forming an edge or border, as of lace, ribbon, cloth, etc.
- noun A Vandyke cape or collar. See II.
- noun A painting by Vandyke.
- noun A small cape resem—bling a very broad collar, worn by women and girls in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.
- Pertaining to the style of dress represented in portraits by Vandyke; especially, ornamented with relatively large points forming a border: noting a broad collar or cape, as of linen.
- To cut the edge of, as a piece of dress, in points, after the manner of a Vandyke collar.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
edge withornamental triangular points . - verb transitive To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with
points orscallops like a vandyke.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)
- noun Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)
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Examples
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I liked to go to meeting, -- not wholly oblivious to the fact that going there sometimes implied wearing a new bonnet and my best white dress and muslin "vandyke," of which adornments, if very new, I vainly supposed the whole congregation to be as admiringly aware as I was myself.
A New England girlhood, outlined from memory (Beverly, MA) Lucy Larcom 1858
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I've had a mustache, a goatee, a vandyke, a soul patch, and mutton chops, and that was just last month.
Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010
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I've had a mustache, a goatee, a vandyke, a soul patch, and mutton chops, and that was just last month.
Mike Gellman: Hair of the Mug Mike Gellman 2010
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Growing a beard has nothing to do with Islam; the Prophet himself never sported anything more than a vandyke.
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My moon is bright yellow with vandyke brown spots.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2005
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Some, at least, could imagine the bean can sporting a neatly trimmed vandyke, or else something Lincolnesque; dressed, maybe, in a white suit, frayed of cuff and buttercupped with age; and supported by an eagle-headed cane; imagine the can pensively twirling a snifter of cognac as it pontificated before a library fire at the Explorers Club.
Skinny Legs and All Robbins, Tom 1990
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A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings.
The End Of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings.
The End of The Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings.
The End of the Matter Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1977
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