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单词 pique-devant
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pique-devantn.

Brit. /ˌpiːkdəˈvɒ̃/, U.S. /ˌpikdəˈvɑnt/
Forms: 1500s peckedeuant, 1500s pickadeuante, 1500s pickadeuaunt, 1500s pickede vaunt, 1500s pickerdeuant, 1500s pike deuant, 1500s pique de vant, 1500s–1700s 1900s– picke-devant, 1600s peake devant, 1600s picadevant, 1600s pickadevant, 1600s pick-a-divant, 1600s pickatevant, 1600s pickdevant, 1600s pickitiuant, 1600s pickitivant, 1600s pickitivaunt, 1600s picky deuant, 1600s 1900s– pick-a-devant, 1600s 1900s– pickerdevant, 1700s picketdevant, 1800s– pique-devant.
Origin: Of uncertain origin. Apparently a borrowing from French. Etymon: French *pique devant.
Etymology: Origin uncertain; apparently < an unattested Middle French *pique devant or *piqué devant , respectively < pique pike n.4 (or perhaps ‘spade at cards’: see pick n.6) or *piqué provided with a pike or spade ( < pique , in either of the above senses + -y suffix5) + devant in front (see devant adv.).Forms in pickede , picka- , picker- , picket- , picki- , picky , pick-a- , pica- appear to reflect a French form piqué , whereas forms in pick- , pike , peake appear to reflect a French form pique . Compare also pickenovant , in the same sense (one isolated attestation; apparently < an unattested Middle French *pique en avant or *piqué en avant , respectively < pique or *piqué (see above) + en avant in front (11th cent. in Old French; < en in + avant (see avant- comb. form)):1594 2nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xvii. sig. G4 He takes the greate slaue by the tip of his pickenouant. It is remarkable that not only is none of the above phrases known in French, but neither is piqué ever attested in this sense. It remains a possibility that the word was formed in English on perceived French models partly after English words of similar form with related meanings (compare peak n.2 2b, peaked adj.1).
historical and rare after early 18th cent.
1. A short beard trimmed to a point; a peaked or Vandyke beard. Also: the point of such a beard.This style of beard was fashionable in England in the latter part of the 16th and earlier part of the 17th centuries.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > styles of hair > [noun] > styles of beard
goat's beard1440
bodkin-bearda1529
pique-devant1587
crates1592
peak1592
spade-peak1592
beard1598
Cads-beard1598
spade-beard1598
punto beard1633
cathedral beard1635
stiletto1638
T bearda1640
trencher-bearda1668
tile beard1816
imperial beard1832
Charley1833
imperial1835
royale1838
goatee1841
goat1849
Newgate frill1851
Newgate fringe1853
Vandyke beard1894
torpedo beard1899
Vandyke1909
pencil beard1966
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) ii. vii. 172/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin..some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!) or now and then suffered to grow long.
a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. B3 Swowns boy, I hope you haue seene many boyes with such pickadeuaunts as I haue.
1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xxv. vi. 270 Wearing his beard..with a sharpe peake devant.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. iii. 619 To turne vp his Munshato's, and curle his head, prune his Pickitivant.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 391/1 The Pick-a-devant Beard..ends in a point under the chin.
1709 Poor Robin sig. C3 Entreaties upon such an account, are as ridiculous as Pickedevant Beards, or Trunck-Breeches.
1966 J. Stevens Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing & Wigmaking 113/1 Pick-a-devant beard, a 16/17th cent. style in which the beard was worn cut to a sharp point.
1968 A. M. Earle Two Centuries of Costume in Amer. xii. 356 The pique-devant beard or ‘pick-a-devant beard, O Fine Fashion’, was much worn.
2. A man with a pointed beard. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [noun] > with a pointed beard
pique-devant1636
picket-beard1670
1636 T. Heywood Challenge for Beautie v. sig. H4 Helle. 'Mongst all these Courtiers, point me out the man? Maid. That Picke-devant that elbowes next the Queene.

Derivatives

pique-devanted adj. having a pointed beard.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > people with styles of hair > [adjective] > having the facial hair cut > in a specific style
pique-devanted1591
sideburned1892
1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso xli. 349 (note) Seldome goeth deuotion with youth, be it spoken without offence of our Peckedeuaunted Ministers.
1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. ii. ii. iv. 578 A young pickitiuanted, trimbearded fellow saith Hierome, will come with a company of complements.
1978 Logophile 6 10/1 On such an evening as this came one Jeremy Gybbin, a gay, picker-devanted squitter-book.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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