Meaning

An edge with ornamental triangular points..

Definitions by Sense

1. An edge with ornamental triangular points.
2. A style of facial hair which has both a mustache and a goatee but with all cheek hair shaven, popular in Europe in the 17th century.
3. A style of dress or collar similar to those in Anthony van Dyck's portrait paintings; a small round cape, the border ornamented with points and indentations.
4. (transitive) To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.

Example Sentences

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.

Raj, you will be painting sideburns and a Van Dyke on a six-inch figurine of Legolas the elf.

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

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.

Word Forms

• vandykes
• Van Dyke
• Van Dyck
• Vandyck
• Vandyke
• vandyking
• vandyked

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