beardlet

English

Etymology

beard +‎ -let

Noun

beardlet (plural beardlets)

  1. A little beard.
    • 1837, Edward Duke, Prolusiones Historicæ‎, 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, 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, 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.

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