pique-devant

English

Portrait of King Charles I of England with a pique-devant

Alternative forms

pickadevant, pick-a-devant, pickadevaunt, pickdevant, pickedevant, pickerdevant, pike devant, pique de vant

Etymology

Probably coined in England, from French pique (“pike, spade (cards)”) or piquer (“to prick”) + devant (“in front”)

Noun

pique-devant (plural pique-devants)

(obsolete, historical) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point.[1] [16th–17th c.]
- 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicle, London: Henry Denham, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 172,
  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.
- 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter,
  twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant
- 1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell,
  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.
- 1638, Richard Baker (translator), New Epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac […] Being the second and third volumes, London: Fra. Eglesfield, John Crooke, and Rich. Serger, Letter 51, p. 108,
  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.
- 1688, Randle Holme III, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, p. 389,
  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.

Synonyms

bodkin beard, stiletto

References

James Stevens-Cox, An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing and Wigmaking, London: Batsford, 1984, p. 118.

[1] James Stevens-Cox, An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing and Wigmaking, London: Batsford, 1984, p. 118.

单词	pique-devant
释义	pique-devant English Portrait of King Charles I of England with a pique-devant Alternative forms pickadevant, pick-a-devant, pickadevaunt, pickdevant, pickedevant, pickerdevant, pike devant, pique de vant Etymology Probably coined in England, from French pique (“pike, spade (cards)”) or piquer (“to prick”) + devant (“in front”) Noun pique-devant (plural pique-devants) (obsolete, historical) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point.[1] [16th–17th c.] 1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicle, London: Henry Denham, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 172, 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. 1596, Thomas Nashe, Have with You to Saffron-Walden, London: John Danter, twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant 1604, Christopher Marlowe, The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, London: Thomas Bushell, 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. 1638, Richard Baker (translator), New Epistles of Mounsieur de Balzac […] Being the second and third volumes, London: Fra. Eglesfield, John Crooke, and Rich. Serger, Letter 51, p. 108, 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. 1688, Randle Holme III, The Academy of Armory, Chester: for the author, Book 2, p. 389, 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. Synonyms bodkin beard, stiletto References James Stevens-Cox, An Illustrated Dictionary of Hairdressing and Wigmaking, London: Batsford, 1984, p. 118.
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