beardlet

plural beardlets

1. A little beard.

   the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face

   1929, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 5, in Richelieu: A Study, Philadelphia: Lippencott, page 88

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   In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the beardlet―or the imperial, as it is magnificently termed.

   1837, Edward Duke, Prolusiones Historicæ, Salisbury, page 168

   Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms.

   2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering, London: Vintage, page 58