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Van·dyke

(văn-dīk′)

1. A Vandyke beard.

2. A Vandyke collar.

a. A V-shaped point that is part of a decorative border or edging.

b. A border made up of such points.

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Van•dyke

or van•dyke

(vænˈdaɪk)

n.

1. Vandyke beard.

a. Vandyke collar.

b. Also called Vandyke′ point′. one of the projecting edges of a deeply indented fabric border, esp. of the lace on a Vandyke collar.

c. a border or trim having such edges.

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Noun	1.	Vandyke - Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641) Anthony Vandyke, Sir Anthony Vandyke, Van Dyck
	2.	vandyke - a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke) vandyke beard beard, face fungus, whiskers - the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face

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Bareacres Castle was theirs, too, with all its costly pictures, furniture, and articles of vertu--the magnificent Vandykes; the noble Reynolds pictures; the Lawrence portraits, tawdry and beautiful, and, thirty years ago, deemed as precious as works of real genius; the matchless Dancing Nymph of Canova, for which Lady Bareacres had sat in her youth--Lady Bareacres splendid then, and radiant in wealth, rank, and beauty--a toothless, bald, old woman now--a mere rag of a former robe of state.

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Tristram, nodding at the Titians and Vandykes, "these, I suppose, are originals."

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Vanbrugh and Congreve copied nature; but they who copy them draw as unlike the present age as Hogarth would do if he was to paint a rout or a drum in the dresses of Titian and of Vandyke. In short, imitation here will not do the business.