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Goatee

Goatˊee′

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Noun.
A part of a man’s beard on the chin or lower lip which is allowed to grow, and trimmed so as to resemble the beard of a goat.

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goatee

goatee

English

Noun

goatee (plural goatees)

  1. A beard trimmed to grow only at the center of the chin.
    • 1907, Joseph Conrad, The Secret Agent, ch. 3,
      The terrorist, as he called himself, was old and bald, with a narrow, snow-white wisp of a goatee hanging limply from his chin.

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