Dictionary

beardlet en · NOUN

Etymology

From beard + -let.

Meanings

1. A little beard.
   • 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. 1837, Edward Duke, Prolusiones Historicæ, Salisbury, page 168:
   • the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face 1929, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 5, in Richelieu: A Study, Philadelphia: Lippencott, page 88:
   • Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms. 2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering, London: Vintage, page 58:

Forms

Deriveds

beardletted