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spade-beard
[f. spade n.1 + beard n.]
A spade-shaped beard; a beard cut or trimmed to the shape of a (pointed or broad) spade-blade.
1598E. Guilpin Skial. D, He with a spade-beard can full mannerly Leade the olde measures. 1679Answ. to Appeal fr. Country to City 31 An Old fellow with a bald pate, and a spade-beard. 1693Dryden, etc. Juvenal xvi. (1697) 387 With their long Spade-Beards, and matted Hair. 1858Carlyle Fredk. Gt. iii. vi. I. 180 A man with high bald brow; magnificent spade-beard. |