What is "vandyked"

Usage examples of "vandyked".

There was an inner circle closely huddled, and outside these they radiated wider apart, the pattern formed by the flock as a whole not being unlike a vandyked lace collar, to which the clump of furze-bushes stood in the position of a wearer’s neck.

The previously gilded but now dreary hills began to lose their daylight aspects of rotundity, and to become black discs vandyked against the sky, all nature wearing the cloak that six o’clock casts over the landscape at this time of the year.

Florian's brown eyes were bright and lively, and he didn't seem to be much over sixty, but his hair and his neatly vandyked little beard were silver-white, and his ruddy face had been deeply stamped and rutted by the tread of his years.