Vandyke beard

American  

noun

1. a short, pointed beard.

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Vandyke beard British  

/ ˈvændaɪk /

noun

1. Often shortened to: Vandyke.  a short pointed beard

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Etymology

Origin of Vandyke beard

First recorded in 1890–95

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.

From The New Yorker

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.”

From Washington Post

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

From New York Times

Gray stubble encroached on his Vandyke beard, the tabs of his oxford were undone, and the shirt had a hole by the belt.

From Forbes

“He, he, he, he, how very funny,” derisively laughed Rutley, in that high-pitched, screechy falsetto key he was so well trained in, and at times he nervously stroked his Vandyke beard.

From Project Gutenberg