Vandyke beard

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Vandyke beard

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Synonym of vandyke (“a style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee”).

  • He was grey-haired, too, and he had a close-clipped grey Vandyke beard and moustache, and shrewd light-blue eyes that peered out from under his grey eyebrows with an uncanny resemblance to Stephen’s.1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, page 211:

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