blue-bearded
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3ADJ.
stout
BLUE-BEARDED + NOUN
veterans, youths
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adj
Having thick, dark facial hair.
1875, Charles Dickens, "In the French-Flemish Country" in The Uncommercial Traveller, The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXX, London: Chapman & Hall, 1907, p. 354, https://archive.org/details/uncommercialtrav0030dick Blue-bearded though they were, and bereft of the youthful smoothness of cheek which is imparted by what is termed in Albion a ‘Whitechapel shave’ (and which is, in fact, whitening, judiciously applied to the jaws with the palm of the hand), I recognised them.
Grouped in the center of the hall were about two hundred men, all armed with sabers, — men of every age, and height and swarthiness, from stout, blue-bearded veterans to youths yet in their teens […]
Characterized by a tuft or other part of a bluish colour, resembling a beard.
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31875, Charles Dickens, "In the French-Flemish Country" in The Uncommercial Traveller, The Works of Charles Dickens, National Edition, Volume XXX, London: Chapman & Hall, 1907, p. 354, https://archive.
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