beardlet
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
beardlet (plural beardlets)
- A little beard.
- 1837, Edward Duke, Prolusiones Historicæ[1], Salisbury, page 168:
- In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the beardlet―or the imperial, as it is magnificently termed.
- 1929, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 5, in Richelieu: A Study[2], Philadelphia: Lippencott, page 88:
- the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face
- 2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering[3], London: Vintage, page 58:
- Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms.