The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vandyke beard \Van*dyke" beard`\ A trim, pointed beard, such as those often seen in pictures by Vandyke.
WordNet
n. a short pointed beard (named after Anthony Vandyke) [syn: vandyke]
Usage examples of "vandyke beard".
His red hair was rumpled, his sharp little Vandyke beard messy, his shirt collar unbuttoned.
He could see the flaming red hair with all trace of gray tinted away, the matching Vandyke beard, trimmed to a sharp point, the blue eyes that had to be flashing like neon signs from heartfelt satisfaction.
But he listened in stony silence, tugging at his precisely trimmed red Vandyke beard, when Austin told him about the massacre aboard the Sea Hunter.
A small athletic man with flaming red hair and a Vandyke beard, he had commanding cold blue eyes that took in everything.
A short man a few inches over five feet, he had a thick carpet of red hair matched by a red Vandyke beard.
Egocentric yet simple, he vainly dyed the gray that was seeping into his flaming red hair and Vandyke beard.
Asher stood behind her in gold and white, his face still perfect, his gold hair in ringlets longer than hers, his mustache and Vandyke beard a blond so dark it was almost brown.
A largish man with a white Vandyke beard, and the appearance of being very lazy.
He had a mustache and a Vandyke beard, so dark gold they were almost brown.
His sallow face had a sardonic quality and he wore a moth-eaten Vandyke beard tinged with gray.
He did not see the tall man in a soiled robe and torn burnoose, his pasted Vandyke beard slipping from his chin, stride through the wide luggage door into the lobby, which, to Henry's dismay, was filled with media people.
His Vandyke beard was red with blood from a cut that ran diagonally across his forehead.
As Selby bumped along in the wagon now, he scratched nervously at his red Vandyke beard and realized that he had not heard as much as a word from Ta-Ta.