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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
goatee
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Belushi, with goatee and discount-mall wardrobe, is a standard-issue angry cop.
▪ Clair, with his goatee, bowl haircut and perennially puzzled look, to querulous life.
▪ Does Anthony Edwards' goatee really work on a man with such otherwise ill-defined features?
▪ He had dutifully nurtured a six-hair goatee and frayed the bottom of his jeans.
▪ His hair is thick but cut quite short and he has a short goatee beard.
▪ His soulless eyes are narrowed and sullen, and his arch goatee recalls an amoral Transylvanian count.
▪ Hsu described the man as white, between 25 and 30, with dark hair and a goatee.
▪ Models sported immaculate centre-parted shoulder-length hair and the beginnings of goatee beards.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Goatee

Goatee \Goat`ee"\, n. A part of a man's beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
goatee

1844 (as goaty), from goaty (adj.). So called from its resemblance to a male goat's chin hairs.

Wiktionary
goatee

n. A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.

WordNet
goatee

n. a small chin beard trimmed to a point; named for its resemblance to a goat's beard

Wikipedia
Goatee

A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on a man's chin but not his cheeks. The exact nature of the style has varied according to time and culture.

Usage examples of "goatee".

El Keb carefully, and went on waving the palm-leaf fan in his own face a face that resembled that of a suspicious parrot with a straggly, goatee beard.

Well, Boris was already here because he is supposed to practise his violin during G and T, but the other band members - Felix, the drummer with the goatee, tall Paul the keyboardist and Trevor the guitar-player - all cut class to set up in the G and T classroom and play me a song Michael wrote just for me.

Stroking his goatee contemplatively, the urisk was a portrait of sagacity.

An artsy sax player sporting a little silver goatee squeezed his eyes shut in ecstasy, leaning into his spotlight serenade.

Looking alarmed at the discord among the identical women, the goateed barista stood close to the phone as if contemplating a call to 9-1-1.

In the anteroom a thin-faced Italian man with a goatee was cleaning his fingernails with the blade of a large pocket knife, his feet up on the desk, a Borsalino hat tipped forward over the bridge of his nose.

And he shrugged towards his goateed team-mate, who shrugged right back at him.

Tall, skinny, with long dank blond hair, a goatee, embroidered jeans, two strands of heishi, and little Ben Franklin glasses.

Colonel Abad, the Khedive had shaved away most of his beard, removing everything except the ghost of a goatee and the faintest trace of moustache.

Finale Club on South San Pedro in what had been Little Tokyo before the residents were all shipped off to detention camps, and listening to Bird, Miles, Dizzy, and everybody else then on the Coast, under the low metal ceiling among all the boppers, reefers, goatees, and porkpie hats.

College Avenue the pedestrian traffic was heaviest: whiskered Phish in tie-dye and dreadlocks, Birkenstocked Liliths with their goateed lampreys.

Beat Bean on Monroe is the kind of place I hate: seamless period decor of the fifties, orange chairs and Formica tables, the goateed servers wearing all black.

And, soon, there came footsteps along the road, and they saw that it was one of the Others, a small man with a balding head and slight goatee, dressed casually in shirt and shorts and sandals.

His companion was dressed in a fancy bloused top and tights, with fancy pointed boots, and had features far different from those seen in the village-lighter, sharper, with long hair, a black goatee, and a moustache that must have been half wax.

It depicted an elderly Caucasian, dressed in long robes, with a goatee beard.