A chin-tuft.
1847. [He] has raised a queer little amber-colored goatee, which answers no other earthly purpose than to betray the poverty of the soil on which it grows, with a very slight sprinkling of a milky moustache on his upper lip!—J. K. Paulding, ‘American Comedies,’ p. 107 (Phila.).
1856. [The Americans] also indulge in eccentricities of appearance in the shape of beards and imperials, not to speak of the “goatee.”—Miss Bird, ‘An Englishwoman in America,’ p. 366. (N.E.D.)
[The Punch cartoon, Nov. 10, 1860, represents the then Prince of Wales, on his return from America, as wearing a goatee.]
