单词 | pique-devant |
释义 | pique-devantn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1587 |
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