chest-protector beard

plural chest-protector beards

1. humorousA large beard that flows down over the chest.

   The proprietor was at least as large as Hyperion Weems with a huge head of curly brass-yellow hair and a vast chest-protector beard.

   1948, L. Sprague De Camp, Fletcher Pratt, The Carnelian Cube, New York: Lancer Books, page 82

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   [A]nd when his rig was reduced to a tattered cloth and a battered Hafisa hat, with long hair and chest-protector beard, the chance white wayfarers did not ask: they knew. One meets such specimens in the bush.

   1933, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Absent Friends, London: Ward, Lock and Co., page 191

   A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.]

   1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74