Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small beard or awn.

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Examples

  • Sir Basil Zaharoff, the greatest of munition salesmen, as one sees him in the painting (ascribed to Orpen) recently discovered in Paris, with his three-cornered hat, his neat little moustaches and beardlet, and the ribbon of some Order of Chivalry about his neck, looks quite a nice, if faintly absurd, little gentleman.

    The Shape of Things to Come Herbert George 2006

  • Its nap is as the down upon * The cheeks where yet no beardlet grew:

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • QUENTIN LETTS: Lord Sugarpuff stroked his beardlet and rotated his chops like a solo trombonist 26/11/09

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • He stroked the beardlet, examined a hundred times his little cue cards and stared at the press gallery.

    Home | Mail Online 2009

  • Lord Sugarpuff stroked his beardlet and rotated his chops like a solo trombonist

    Home | Mail Online 2009

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