English

Alternative forms

• Van Dyck
• Vandyck
• Vandyke beard

Noun

Vandyke ‎(plural Vandykes)

1. A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and goatee but with all cheek hair shaven.
2. A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings.

English

Noun

vandyke ‎(plural vandykes)

1. An edge with ornamental triangular points.
2. Alternative form of Vandyke (style of facial hair)
   • 1953, Saul Bellow, chapter 5, in The Adventures of Augie March:

     He was still an old galliard, with white Buffalo Bill vandyke, and he swanked around, still healthy of flesh, in white suits, looking things over with big sex-amused eyes.

Verb

vandyke ‎(third-person singular simple present vandykes, present participle vandyking, simple past and past participle vandyked)

1. (transitive) To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
   • (Can we date this quote?), John G. Edgar, The Boy Crusaders:

     Her charms were set off by the mourning dress which she wore, and by the robe called the quintise, which was an upper tunic without sleeves, with bordered vandyking and scalloping worked and notched in various patterns, worn so long behind that it swept the floor, but in front held up gracefully with one hand so as not to impede the step.

   • (Can we date this quote?), Rudyard Kipling, The Day's Work, Volume 1:

     Again I searched, and found a most diabolical pair of cock-nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interiors of elephants.

   • 1898, Stanley John Weyman, The Castle Inn:

     The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms. Mr. Thomasson's exclamation of relief, as he surveyed the building, was cut short by the harsh rattle of a chain, followed by the roar of a watch-dog, as it bounded from the kennel; in a second a horrid raving and baying, as of a score of hounds, awoke the night.