Vandyke

[ van-dahyk ]

noun

1. Sir Anthony. Van Dyck, Sir Anthony.
2. Vandyke beard.
3. Vandyke collar.
4. Printing. a proof having white lines on a brown ground or vice versa, made from a negative for a plate.

Example Sentences

Work until square, and finish with a vandyke edge in the same wool, and No. 10 pins.

From Project Gutenberg

There was her name embroidered on one of the most barbarous of those dreadful samplers; one with a double border, the outer one in circles, the inner in vandykes.

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They wore doublets of scarlet velvet, with large loose sleeves slashed up the front; the collar covered by a falling band of the richest point lace, with a vandyke edging.

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Instead of black, she finally selected a vandyke brown.

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This finishes the first vandyke.—Commence again, as at third row.

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