Beardlet

In the present day […] there does appear also a lurking desire amongst a portion of our fellow-men for the revival of the beard, but, fearful of the aroused voice of the country, they seem tremulously to adopt―the beardlet―or the imperial, as it is magnificently termed.

the firm slight lips between the military moustache and beardlet of that pointed face

Golden hair courses down his belly. It hangs in little beardlets from under each pap and fizzes out from under his arms.