Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A Vandyke beard.
- noun A Vandyke collar.
- noun A V-shaped point that is part of a decorative border or edging.
- noun A border made up of such points.
- Anthony,Flemish painter whose numerous portraits, including many of the English court, are remarkable for their dignity and gentle emotion.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A picture by Vandyke. Also, a Vandyke collar, or a Vandyke edge.
- adjective Of or pertaining to the style of Vandyke the painter; used or represented by Vandyke.
- adjective (Paint.) a pigment of a deep semitransparent brown color, supposed to be the color used by Vandyke in his pictures.
- adjective a broad collar or cape of linen and lace with a deep pointed or scalloped edge, worn lying on the shoulders; -- so called from its appearance in pictures by Vandyke.
- adjective an edge having ornamental triangular points.
- transitive verb rare To fit or furnish with a Vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a Vandyke.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A style of
facial hair which has both amustache andgoatee but with allcheek hairshaven . - noun A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Her dress is what is termed a Vandyke robe; it fits closely, and is scolloped round the neck, arms, and at the bottom.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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In the chancel are monuments of Daniel Clarke, Esq. who had been master-cook to Queen Elizabeth; and of Cooper the artist, whose style approached so near to that of Vandyke, that he has been called Vandyke in miniature: he taught the author of Hudibras to paint; his wife was sister to Pope's mother.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 546, May 12, 1832 Various
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We were going to have roast pork for dinner with boiled potatoes and what Andrew calls Vandyke brown gravy.
Parnassus On Wheels 1917
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'Vandyke' was the early Victorian spelling of the surname of Sir Anthony Van Dyck, the seventeenth-century Flemish painter famous for his fine portraits of members of the English aristocracy and royal court.
'The Making of Mr. Gray's Anatomy: Books, Bodies, Fortune, Fame' 2009
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The dates of their deaths are very clearly marked by the different fashions of their dresses -- a compact and upstanding ruff adds to the stiff precision of the first wife's appearance; while the sloping lines of a 'Vandyke' collar embellish the dress of the fourth.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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We were not thinking of exactly the same kind of Vandyke that he was.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 71, September, 1863 Various
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The latter breed (black and tan, with hair almost approaching to silk in fineness, such as Vandyke loved to introduce into his portraits) were solely in the possession of the late Duke of Norfolk.
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The vandykes of this apron are such as Vandyke would scorn; poor little pitiful things they be! and will be in rags in a fortnight no doubt.
The Life and Letters of Maria Edgeworth, Volume 2 Maria Edgeworth 1808
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a noble-looking youth, with his mother's eyes, and his father's curling brown hair, that fell over his _point de Venise_ -- a pretty picture such as Vandyke might have painted.
The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886 Ontario. Ministry of Education
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I wonder if I should start again with a narrower one. – the “Triangle with Vandyke” on p. 121?
Archive 2009-08-01 Jean 2009
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