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| | BEARD (A.S. beard, O. H. and Mod. Ger. Bart, Dan. beard, Icel. bar, rim, edge, beak of a ship, &c., O. Slay. barda, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Thus, in the Bayeux needlework, Edward the king is venerable with a long beard, but Harold and his younger fighting men have their chins reaped. |
 | | " The English,"says William of Malmesbury, " leave the upper lip unshaven, suffering the hair continually to increase," and to Harold's spies the Conqueror's knights, who had " the whole face with both lips shaven," were strange and priest-like. |
 | | Matthew Paris had a strange idea that the beard was distinctive of Englishmen; he asserts that those who remained in England were compelled to shave their beards, while the native nobles who went into |
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