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Mustache vs Vandyke - What's the difference?

mustache | vandyke |

As nouns the difference between mustache and vandyke

is that mustache is a growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip while vandyke is an edge with ornamental triangular points.

As a verb vandyke is

to fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.

mustache

English

Alternative forms

* (Commonwealth English ) moustache

Noun

(en noun)
  • A growth of facial hair between the nose and the upper lip.
  • *
  • *:“My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache . “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”

    • Derived terms

    * Charlie Chaplin mustache * Fu Manchu mustache * handlebar mustache * Hitler mustache * molestache * mustache ride * stache, 'stache * tache, 'tache * toothbrush mustache

    See also

    * beard * sideburn, sideboard * whisker

    vandyke

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An edge with ornamental triangular points.

    • Verb

    (vandyk)
  • To fit or furnish with a vandyke; to form with points or scallops like a vandyke.
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=John G. Edgar, title=The Boy Crusaders, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Her charms were set off by the mourning dress which she wore, and by the robe called the quintise, which was an upper tunic without sleeves, with bordered vandyking and scalloping worked and notched in various patterns, worn so long behind that it swept the floor, but in front held up gracefully with one hand so as not to impede the step. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=, author=Rudyard Kipling, title=The Day's Work, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Again I searched, and found a most diabolical pair of cock-nosed shears, capable of vandyking the interiors of elephants. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Stanley John Weyman, title=The Castle Inn, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The travellers had not advanced many paces towards them before the peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky and docking the last sparse branches of the elms. Mr. Thomasson's exclamation of relief, as he surveyed the building, was cut short by the harsh rattle of a chain, followed by the roar of a watch-dog, as it bounded from the kennel; in a second a horrid raving and baying, as of a score of hounds, awoke the night. }}