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.
Source: wiktionary
twice double his Patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing & preseruing his pickerdeuant
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Showing 4 of 5 available sentences.