pique-devant
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
26
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Neither will I meddle with our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin like those of Turks, not a few cut short like to the beard of marques Otto, some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!) or now and then suffered to grow long, the barbers being growen to be so cunning in this behalfe as the tailors."
- "twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant"
- "Wag[ner]. Sirra boy, come hither. Clo[wn]. How, boy? swowns boy, I hope you haue séene many boyes with such pickadevaunts as I haue."
- "I have seene the Cavalier you have so often spoken of, and I thinke you judge verie rightlie of him. Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant [in the French original: la pointe de sa barbe], and two Mustachoes: and therefore utterly to defeate him, there needes but three clippes of a paire of Cizers."
- "In the Sinister Chief is set another sort of a full Face with a sharp pointed Beard, and is termed in Blazon, a Mans face with a Pick-a-devant, (or sharp pointed) Beard."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
pique-devants (plural)
pickadevant (alternative)
pick-a-devant (alternative)
pickadevaunt (alternative)
pickdevant (alternative)
pickedevant (alternative)
pickerdevant (alternative)
pike devant (alternative)
pique de vant (alternative)
Synonyms
bodkin beard
stiletto