noun. One of a series of relatively large points forming an edge or border, as of lace, ribbon, cloth, etc.

noun. A Vandyke cape or collar. See II.

noun. A painting by Vandyke.

noun. A small cape resem—bling a very broad collar, worn by women and girls in the first quarter of the nineteenth century.

Pertaining to the style of dress represented in portraits by Vandyke; especially, ornamented with relatively large points forming a border: noting a broad collar or cape, as of linen.

To cut the edge of, as a piece of dress, in points, after the manner of a Vandyke collar.

noun. An edge with ornamental triangular points.

verb. To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.

noun. a short pointed beard (named after the artist Anthony Vandyke)

noun. Flemish painter of numerous portraits (1599-1641)

"I liked to go to meeting, -- not wholly oblivious to the fact that going there sometimes implied wearing a new bonnet and my best white dress and muslin "vandyke," of which adornments, if very new, I vainly supposed the whole congregation to be as admiringly aware as I was myself."

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