beardlet
A little beard.
Noun
- A little beard.
- In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the...
- the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face - 1929, Hilaire Belloc, chapter 5, in Richelieu: A Study, Philadelphia: Lippencott, page 88:
- Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms. - 2007, Anne Enright, chapter 10, in The Gathering, London: Vintage, page 58:
Origin
From beard + -let.