[f. SPADE sb.1 + BEARD sb.] A spade-shaped beard; a beard cut or trimmed to the shape of a (pointed or broad) spade-blade.

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1598.  E. Guilpin, Skial., iii. D. He with a spade-beard can full mannerly, Leade the olde measures.

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1679.  Answ. to Appeal fr. Country to City, 31. An Old fellow with a bald pate, and a spade-beard.

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1693.  Dryden, etc. Juvenal, xvi. (1697), 387. With their long Spade-Beards, and matted Hair.

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1858.  Carlyle, Fredk. Gt., III. vi. I. 180. A man with high bald brow; magnificent spade-beard.

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