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ˈlong-beard
1. A man with a long beard.
1786tr. Beckford's Vathek (1883) 128 Loud must have been the sound of the tymbals to overpower the blubbering of the Emir and his longbeards.
¶b. A pseudo-etymol. rendering of Lombard.
1647–8Sir C. Cotterell Davila's Hist. Fr. (1678) 3 Famous incursions of the Longbeards. 1889[see Longobardian].
2. An epiphytic plant, Tillandsia usneoides, found in the forests of the southern United States: also called long-moss, Spanish moss.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Long-beard, a name for a kind of moss or epiphyte brought down the Mississippi. 1866in Treas. Bot.
3. A bellarmine.
1878Jewitt Ceramic Art Gt. Brit. I. 92 The Bellarmine, or Grey Beard, or Long Beard, as it was commonly called. |