Vandyke
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Vandyke /vanˈdʌɪk/
▶noun
- 1 a broad lace or linen collar with an edge deeply cut into large points, fashionable in the 18th century.
- 2 (also Vandyke beard) a neat pointed beard.
– origin C18: named after the 17th-cent. Flemish painter Sir Anthony Van Dyck, whose portraits freq. depict such styles.
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