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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete, historical) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point..
Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin like those of Turks, not a few cut short like to the beard of marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!) or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this behalfe as the tailors.
twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant
Wag[ner]. Sirra boy, come hither. Clo[wn]. How, boy? swowns boy, I hope you haue séene many boyes with such pickadevaunts as I haue.
I have seene the Cavalier you have so often spoken of, and I thinke you judge verie rightlie of him. Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant [in the French original: la pointe de sa barbe], and two Mustachoes: and therefore utterly to defeate him, there needes but three clippes of a paire of Cizers.
In the Sinister Chief is set another sort of a full Face with a sharp pointed Beard, and is termed in Blazon, a Mans face with a Pick-a-devant, (or sharp pointed) Beard.
Use pique-devant when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pique-devant means (obsolete, historical) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point..
Common synonyms include bodkin beard, stiletto.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin like those of Turks, not a few cut short like to the beard of marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!) or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this behalfe as the tailors.
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