blue-bearded

== English == === Adjective === blue-bearded (not comparable) (possessional) 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, [1] 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. (As part of the names of plants and animals) Characterized by a tuft or other part of a bluish colour, resembling a beard. ==== Derived terms ==== blue-bearded bee-eater blue-bearded iris blue-bearded spelt