vandyke

IPA: vændˈaɪk

An edge with ornamental triangular points.
A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.
A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.
Alternative letter-case form of vandyke [An edge with ornamental triangular points.]

(transitive) To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.

Examples of "vandyke" in Sentences

My moon is bright yellow with vandyke brown spots.
I've had a mustache, a goatee, a vandyke, a soul patch, and mutton chops, and that was just last month.
Growing a beard has nothing to do with Islam; the Prophet himself never sported anything more than a vandyke.
A pointed vandyke and curled-up mustache gave the slaver the appearance of a foppish raven with clipped wings.
I liked to go to meeting, -- not wholly oblivious to the fact that going there sometimes implied wearing a new bonnet and my best white dress and muslin "vandyke," of which adornments, if very new, I vainly supposed the whole congregation to be as admiringly aware as I was myself.
Some, at least, could imagine the bean can sporting a neatly trimmed vandyke, or else something Lincolnesque; dressed, maybe, in a white suit, frayed of cuff and buttercupped with age; and supported by an eagle-headed cane; imagine the can pensively twirling a snifter of cognac as it pontificated before a library fire at the Explorers Club.