vandyke
IPA: vændˈaɪk
noun
- 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.]
verb
- (transitive) To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
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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.