Meanings
plural Vandyke beards
- Synonym of vandyke (“a style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee”).
He was grey-haired, too, and he had a close-clipped grey Vandyke beard and moustache, and shrewd light-blue eyes that peered out from under his grey eyebrows with an uncanny resemblance to Stephen’s.
1930, Margaret Ayer Barnes, Years of Grace, Part II, Chapter IV, page 211Synonyms: vandyke
Synonyms & antonyms
nounSynonym of vandyke (“a style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee”).
More synonyms by meaning
nouna short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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Vandyke beard. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Vandyke%20beard
“Vandyke beard.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Vandyke%20beard. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Vandyke beard,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Vandyke%20beard.
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