Vandyken.
/vanˈdʌɪk/, U.S. /vænˈdaɪk/ 1. (With capital initial.) A painting or portrait by Van Dyck.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > portrait-painting > a portrait > portrait by famous painter
Vandyke1751
Gainsborough1798
Romney1885
Joshua1972
1751 H. Walpole Lett. (1846) II. 395 The whole-length Vandykes went for a song!
1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere III. vi. xlv. 294 The ball-room, lined with Vandycks and Lelys.
2. A broad lace or linen collar or neckerchief with a deeply cut edge, in imitation of the style of collar frequently depicted in portraits by Van Dyck, forming an article of fashionable dress in the 18th century.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > neck-wear > [noun] > collar > types of > other
rabat1578
falling band1581
rebato1589
fall1598
piccadill1607
golilla1673
collarettea1685
banda1700
turn-over1716
Vandyke1755
falling-down collar1758
falling collar1770
fall-down?1796
yoke collar1817
rabatine1821
dicky1830
dog collar1852
Piccadilly collar1853
all-rounder1854
all round1855
turnover collara1861
Quaker collar1869
Eton collar1875
Toby collar1885
Eton1887
sailor collar1895
roll-neck1898
Shakespeare collar1907
polo collar1909
white-collar1910
tab collar1928
Peter Pan collar1948
tie-neck1968
1755 Gentleman's Mag. July 324/1 Circling round her iv'ry neck Frizzle out the smart Vandike.
1769 J. Granger Biogr. Hist. Eng. I. 571 Laced handkerchiefs, resembling the large falling band worn by the men, were in fashion among the ladies: this article of dress has been lately revived, and called a Vandyck.
1838 N. Hawthorne Amer. Note-bks. (1868) I. 242 One of them..attempts to exchange a worked vandyke.
3. One of a number of deep-cut points on the border or fringe of an article of apparel (see quot. 1882). Usually in plural.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > trimmings or ornamentation > border or edging > parts of
dag1399
tag1402
tatter1402
jag1530
cut1563
Vandyke1827
tab1834
tabc1880
1827 Souvenir (Stanf.) I. 151/3 Tulle pelisse, with three vandykes on the shoulders, forming epaulettes.
1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 230 The particular form required whether as vandykes, or scallops, or any other figures.
1858 Ladies' Treasury Sept. 185 The body has a bertha cut in vandykes.
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 510/1 Vandykes, this term is descriptive of a particular pointed form cut as a decorative border to collars and other portions of wearing apparel, and to the trimmings of dress skirts and bodices.
4. transferred. A notched, deeply indented, or zigzag border, edging, or formation.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] > an indented edge
battlement1444
jagging1502
Vandyke1846
Vandyke border1880
1846 J. Ruskin Let. in Wks. (1909) XXXVI. 64 A bridge..with this pretty vandyke outside by way of variety.
1891 Daily News 14 Oct. 2/8 The whole coast is a vandyke of bays and clefts and promontories.
5. technical. (See quot. 1846.)
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1846 C. Holtzapffel Turning & Mech. Manip. II. xxvii. 736 [Buhl work] Brass borders, technically known as vandykes, are worked in narrow slips.
6. = Vandyke beard n. at Compounds.
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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
1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse III. viii. lix. 949 A carefully trained moustache and a vandyke turning white contrived to be at once distinguished and benign.
1951 E. Paul Springtime in Paris (U.K. ed.) xi. 204 The ‘Zazous’ quarter surpasses even Oberammergau, as far as beards are concerned... The hearties have stiff whiskers, and some of the Central and South American boys sport silken Van Dykes.
1974 P. De Vries Glory of Hummingbird xvi. 252 A false mustache and Vandyke..completed the transformation.
1982 S. B. Flexner Listening to Amer. 65 The first group mainly wore short Imperials or waxed and pomaded Van Dykes.
7. (See quot. 1889.)
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > a grass or grasses > [noun] > panic grasses
panic?1440
summer grass1531
panicle1577
manna-grass1597
panic grass1597
panicum1739
crab-grass1743
witchgrass1790
old-witch grass1859
vine-bamboo1871
Vandyke1889
1889 J. H. Maiden Useful Pl. W. Ind. 99 Panicum flavidum,..‘Vandyke Grass’ (of Bailey).
Compounds
Used attributively or as adj. (with capital initial.) in designating things associated in some way with Van Dyck or his paintings (see quots. and cf. preceding senses).
Vandyke beard n.
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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
1894 Westm. Gaz. 25 June 8/1 Everyone is now wearing a pointed V-shaped Vandyck beard, while a few years ago the Vandyck beard was unknown.
Vandyke border n.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [noun] > an indented edge
battlement1444
jagging1502
Vandyke1846
Vandyke border1880
1880 Paper & Printing Trades Jrnl. xxx. 29 Each page having a deep Vandyke border.
Vandyke brown n.
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the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [noun] > other browns
umberc1568
Spanish brown1660
earth colour1688
raw umber1702
iron brown1714
clove-brown1794
raw sienna1797
wood-brown1805
moorit1809
coffee1815
oak1815
burnt almond1850
Vandyke brown1850
Turk's head1853
catechu brown1860
oak brown1860
mummy brown1861
walnut-brown1865
Havana1873
havana brown1875
wax-brown1887
box1889
nutria1897
caramel1909
wallflower brown1913
cigar1923
desert-brown1923
sunburn1923
tobacco1923
maple1926
butterscotch1927
walnut1934
snuff1951
mink1955
toffee1960
sludge1962
earth-tone1973
1850 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. iv. 495/2 Vandyke Brown,..a species of peat or bog-earth, of a fine deep semi-transparent brown colour.
Vandyke couching n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > done in specific stitches > couching > specific
brick stitch1842
brick couching1881
brick1882
spider couching1882
Vandyke couching1882
bricking1899
surface couching1927
underside-couching1936
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 92/2 Vandyke couching, a Raised Couching formed with lines of whipcord laid on the linen foundation in the shape of vandykes [etc.].
Vandyke dress n.
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1825 T. B. Macaulay Milton in Edinb. Rev. Aug. 330 His [sc. Charles I] Vandyke dress, his handsome face, and his peaked beard.
Vandyke handkerchief n.
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1757 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 467 Madam Godineau, in a round card cap of black lace..and a vandyke handkerchief of the same.
Vandyke stitch n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > stitch > other
chain-stitch1598
French knot1623
picot1623
petty-point1632
tent-stitch1639
brede-stitch1640
herringbone stitch1659
satin stitch1664
feather-stitch1835
Gobelin stitch1838
crowfoot1839
seedingc1840
German stitch1842
petit point1842
long stitch1849
looped stitch1851
hem-stitch1853
loop-stitch1853
faggot stitch1854
spider-wheel1868
dot stitch1869
picot stitch1869
slip-stitch1872
coral-stitch1873
stem stitch1873
rope stitch1875
Vienna cross stitch1876
witch stitch1876
pin stitch1878
seed stitch1879
cushion-stitch1880
Japanese stitch1880
darning-stitch1881
Kensington stitch1881
knot-stitch1881
bullion knot1882
cable pattern1882
Italian stitch1882
lattice-stitch1882
queen stitch1882
rice stitch1882
shadow-stitch1882
ship-ladder1882
spider-stitch1882
stem1882
Vandyke stitch1882
warp-stitch1882
wheel-stitch1882
basket-stitch1883
outline stitch1885
pointing1888
bullion stitchc1890
cable-stitchc1890
oriental stitchc1890
Turkish stitchc1890
Romanian stitch1894
shell-stitch1895
saddle stitch1899
magic stitch1900
plumage-stitch1900
saddle stitching1902
German knot stitch1903
trellis1912
padding stitch1913
straight stitch1918
Hungarian stitch1921
trellis stitch1921
lazy daisy1923
diamond stitchc1926
darning1930
faggot filling stitch1934
fly stitch1934
magic chain stitch1934
glove stitch1964
pad stitch1964
1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 195/1 Vandyke stitch, a raised Couching.
Vandyke tippet n.
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1833 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. v, in Fraser's Mag. Dec. 670/1 Vandyke tippets, ruffs, fardingales, are brought vividly before us.
Vandyke tracery n.
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1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward Dict. Needlework 499/1 Vandyke tracery..is worked much in the same way as Cross Tracery, and forms a zig-zag device on the open parts of leaves and other spaces.
Vandyke work n.
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1829 S. Glover Hist. County of Derby I. 242 In 1766..Crane manufactured a rich brocade for waistcoats,..and about two years afterwards he attempted vandyke-work, by appending a warp-machine to a plain stocking frame.
Derivatives
Van ˈDyckian adj. pertaining to or characteristic of the paintings of Van Dyck.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > period, movement, or school of art > 17th century-mid 19th century > [adjective] > style of specific artist
Hogarthian1744
Rembrandtesque1824
Rembrandtish1827
Watteauish1833
Rembrandtic1836
Turneresque1846
Poussinesque1847
Turnerian1857
Greuze-like1860
Rubensian1877
Rembrandtian1881
Romney1883
Tiepolesque1895
Watteauesque1925
Goyaesque1934
Van Dyckian1942
Vanbrughian1947
Stubbsian1960
1942 Burlington Mag. Feb. 43/2 The stage effects of court painting in the Van Dyckian vein.
1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 71/2 The pose..is pure convention: a Van Dyckian cliché lifted from Van Dyck's etching of Pieter Brueghel the Younger.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
vandykev.
/vanˈdʌɪk/, U.S. /vænˈdaɪk/ 1.
a. transitive. To furnish or provide (some dress material) with vandykes or deep-cut points, after the manner represented in Van Dyck's paintings; to cut or shape with deep angular indentations. Chiefly in past participle.
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1800 [implied in: Hull Advertiser 22 Nov. 3/3 A broad border, or rather flounce, of vandyked velvet. (at vandyked adj.)].
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch vii. 65 Long muslin frockies, vandyked across the breast.
1869 Latest News 5 Sept. 7 The muslin skirt is trimmed with a gathered flounce, vandyked at each edge.
1894 S. J. Weyman Man in Black 55 His dress was in the extreme of the fashion, his falling collar vandyked.
b. In general use.
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1839 W. M. Thackeray Fatal Boots Feb. I made the leaves of the [needle-] book, which I vandyked very nicely, out of a piece of flannel.
1868 Fortn. Rev. Nov. 485 A shelf of limestone..not presenting a straight face, but vandyked, as it were, into a bewildering number of zigzags.
1887 Grosart in Lismore Papers 2nd Ser. I. 4 This document is indented or vandyked along its upper edge.
c. Said of the thing forming, or helping to form, the indentations.
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1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 2 323 Tongues of sea-sand..vandyking its borders.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 228 It is easy to see numerous irregularities and transverse markings, vandyking and crossing the more visible features in various directions.
1898 S. J. Weyman Castle Inn 221 The peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky.
2. intransitive. To go or proceed in an irregular zigzag manner; to take a zigzag course. ? Obsolete.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > tailor or make clothes [verb (transitive)] > border or edge
purfle?c1325
dagc1386
hem14..
cadge1530
passement1539
pounce1542
vandyke1828
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > change direction of movement [verb (intransitive)] > move in winding course
to turn and winda1398
wreathea1500
twine1553
indent1567
virea1586
crank1594
to dance the hay or hays1600
maze1605
serpent1606
to indent the way1612
cringlea1629
indenture1631
circumgyre1634
twist1635
glomerate1638
winda1682
serpentine1767
meander1785
zigzag1787
zag1793
to worm one's way1822
vandyke1828
crankle1835
thread the needle1843
switchback1903
rattlesnake1961
zig1969
1828 D. M. Moir Life Mansie Wauch xiii. 195 It behoves me..to beg pardon..for being forced whiles to zig-zag and vandyke.
1831 Fraser's Mag. 3 27 He discussed two bottles of old Bordeaux, and, staggering to a bye lane, vandyked to Farningham.
1845 A. Smith Fortunes Scattergood Family I. xv. 213 Foreign gentlemen..vandyked with indecision about the quay, as they tried to recollect the name of the hotel.
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