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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A short, pointed beard, especially one worn with the cheeks shaven and a mustache.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[After Sir Anthony Vandyke.]

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