pique-devant
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pique-devant
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Probably coined in England, from French pique (“pike, spade (cards)”) or piquer (“to prick”) + devant (“in front”)
noun pique-devants · pickadevant · pick-a-devant · pickadevaunt · pickdevant · pickedevant
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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
Similar: bodkin beard, stiletto
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title = {pique-devant},
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