Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A small beard or awn.
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Examples
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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
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Its nap is as the down upon * The cheeks where yet no beardlet grew:
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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QUENTIN LETTS: Lord Sugarpuff stroked his beardlet and rotated his chops like a solo trombonist 26/11/09
Home | Mail Online 2009
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He stroked the beardlet, examined a hundred times his little cue cards and stared at the press gallery.
Home | Mail Online 2009
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Lord Sugarpuff stroked his beardlet and rotated his chops like a solo trombonist
Home | Mail Online 2009
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