Advertisement

Advertisement

Vandyke beard

noun

  1. a short, pointed beard.


Vandyke beard

/ ˈvændaɪk /

noun

  1. a short pointed beard Often shortened toVandyke
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of Vandyke beard1

First recorded in 1890–95
Discover More

Example Sentences

His wire-rimmed glasses, Vandyke beard, and thick head of dark hair combined to give him a striking resemblance to the man then commanding Soviet Russia’s Red Army, Leon Trotsky.

The office door opened and a tall, fleshless man with hard-etched features, wearing horn-rim glasses and a fuzzy Vandyke beard, appeared.

He wore a mustache and a neatly trimmed Vandyke beard.

In stark contrast, Charles Lang Freer made his money in Detroit from the manufacture of railroad cars, and was “reclusive, fastidious, idiosyncratic, lean in frame, with an immaculately groomed Vandyke beard.”

Mr. Birnbaum wore a thick Vandyke beard and a Panama hat.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


VandykeVandyke brown