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

Upperside dark to somewhat pale vandyke brown.
The insistence on Qatar is the same as Vandyke.
My moon is bright yellow with vandyke brown spots.
Palermo had grown a Vandyke beard and the paper ran photos of him.
I am not insisting on the exclusion of the interpretation of Vandyke.
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.