pique-devants

Noun

pique-devant (plural pique-devants)

1. (historical, obsolete) A small beard trimmed to a sharp point.
   • 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...1587, Raphael Holinshed et al., Holinshed’s Chronicle, London: Henry Denham, Book 2, Chapter 7, p. 172

   Synonyms:

   bodkin beard, stiletto