bearded

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The two were described as a bearded white man with multiple tattoos and wearing a black hat and a camouflage jacket, and a white woman, with blond highlights in her hair, wearing a pink shirt, blue jeans, and sandals.

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  1. Having a beard. Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard. Shak., As you Like it, ii. 7. It is good to steal away from the society of bearded men, and even of gentler woman, and spend an hour or two with children. Hawthornè. Twice-Told Tales, I.
  2. In heraldry: Same as barbed, 3. Having a train like that of a comet or meteor (which see).
  3. In entom.: Having a tuft of hairs on the clypeus, overhanging the mouth. Covered on one side with short and thickly set hairs: said of antennæ.
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  • Today the professor looked like one of those eccentric characters you often see along waterfronts: white-bearded, his thick mane protected by a shabby seaman's cap, wearing old khaki pants and a threadbare blue-and-white striped shirt. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • He was swarthy and full-bearded, and all he said to me was, “Yah?” along with a number of incoherent mutterings, and he said them in a distinctly foreign accent. —  A VOID
  • He is short and bearded, and he reminds me of Papa Smurf. —  RISMedia
  • Spokespeople for megachurch Potter's House, Comerica Bank and the city of Dallas say they aren't looking to hire the onetime Hip Hop Mayor, who emerged bushy-bearded, about 30 pounds slimmer and silent when he left jail at 12: 35 a.m. Tuesday. —  detnews.com - Commuting
  • Thornton's reaction was reminiscent of scruffy-bearded, sunglasses-wearing Phoenix's surreal appearance on David Letterman, in which he muttered, stared off into space and refused to answer questions. —  canada.com Top Stories
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  1. from Middle English berded; from beard + -ed.
 

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