beard

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In spite of several of them growing a long beard (the only French corps where growing a beard is allowed), the legionnaires are not particularly the sort of troops that the Taliban like to see come their way.

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  1. noun The hair on a man's chin, cheeks, and throat.
  2. noun A hairy or hairlike growth such as that on or near the face of certain mammals.
  3. noun A tuft or group of hairs or bristles on certain plants, such as barley and wheat.
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  • Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's—then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively. —  Christopher Moore - You Suck
  • The locks of the beard are almost a cubit long, and so exquisitely and cleverly drawn, at such regular distances and in so exact a manner, that the better any one understands art, the more he would admire it, and the more certain would he deem it that in fashioning these locks the hand had employed artificial aid. —  Albert Durer
  • Would you like to see your husband let his beard grow, until he would be obliged to put the end of it in his pocket, because this beard is the gift of nature? —  Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • More silence The funny guy with the beard is the one I mean. —  164 - Death In Little Houses
  • Next on the show - Muslim organisations have expressed displeasure over Supreme Court judge Markandeya Katju's observations that growing a beard was akin to promoting Talibanisation 'in the country. —  NDTV News - Top Stories
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mustache ·  hair ·  curl ·  eyebrow ·  wig ·  chin ·  brow ·  fur ·  mane ·  coat ·  cheek ·  robe

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English berd, from Old English beard; see bhardh-ā- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English berde, berd, from Anglo-Saxon beard = Dutch baard = OFries. berd = Old High German Middle High German G. bart = Icelandic -bardhr, in comp. (cf. neuter bardh, brim, beak of a ship (see bard): the ordinary term for ‘beard’ is skegg = English shag) = Old Bulgarian Servian Bohemian brada = Polish broda = Russian boroda = Lithuanian barzda, barza = Lettish barda = Old Prussian bordus, and prob. = Latin barba (later English barb), W. and Cornish barf, a beard. The agreement in spelling between modern English and Anglo-Saxon beard is merely accidental: see ea.
  2. from late Middle English berde; from the noun.
 

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