chest-protector beard
chest-protector beard noun: a large beard that flows down over the chest.
Noun
chest-protector beard (plural chest-protector beards)
- A large beard that flows down over the chest.
- [A]nd when his rig was reduced to a tattered cloth and a battered Hafisa hat, with long hair and chest-protector beard, the chance white wayfarers did not ask: they knew. One meets such specimens in the bush.1933, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Absent Friends, London: Ward, Lock and Co., page 191
- A short, stout, puffed-up little man in a high pot-hat and a buttoned-up frock-coat and a chest-protector beard was sitting up behind a stump[.]1936, Norman Lindsay, The Flyaway Highway, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 74
Forms of chest-protector beard
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Questions about chest-protector beard
- What does chest-protector beard mean?
- Chest-protector beard means a large beard that flows down over the chest.
- What part of speech is chest-protector beard?
- Chest-protector beard is a noun.
- What is the plural of chest-protector beard?
- The plural of chest-protector beard is chest-protector beards.
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