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beardly en · ADJ

Etymology

From beard + -ly.

Meanings

1. Of, relating to, or resembling a beard; beardish.
   • I leaned far off the safety of my board, so low that if my beard had been any longer its tip would have brushed the rumbling pebbles. But my beard was not long then, barely able to brush the hollow above my sternum, and I snatched up the coffer without bodily or beardly harm. 2013, D F Lewis, Horror Without Victims - Page 196:
   • Beards and nobility go hand in hand, so it will come as no surprise to most that members of the great lordly houses are wont to vaunt their beardly heritage. 2011, Upton Uxbridge Underwood, Gilbert Alter-Gilbert, Jack Passion, Poets Ranked by Beard Weight:

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