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† picke-devant, pique devant Obs.
Forms: 6 pique de vant, pickede vaunt, pickerdevant, (pickenovant); 6–7 pike-devant, pickadevaunt, -devant, -ante, 7 picadevant, pick-a-divant, pickatevant, pickitiva(u)nt, pickydevant, peake devant, 7–8 picke-devant.
[A phrase app. made up of Fr. words, but itself unknown in Fr., and found only in Eng. (from c 1587 to 1630 or later). App. either for pique (or ? pic) devant, meant for ‘peak in front’, or for piqué devant, ‘peaked in front’. The various spellings pickede, picka-, picker-, picki-, picky-, pick-a- seem to suit the latter, though the forms in pick, pike, and peake app. imply the n. (Cf. also F. pique a spade at cards.) Pickenovant might be meant for pique en avant.]
A short beard trimmed to a point; a peaked or Vandyke beard: fashionable in England in the latter part of the 16th and earlier part of the 17th c.
1587Harrison England ii. vii. (1877) i. 169 Our varietie of beards, of which some are shauen from the chin..; some made round like a rubbing brush, other with a pique de vant (O fine fashion!), or now and then suffered to grow long. 1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 28 Take away this beard, and giue me a pickede vaunt. 1592Lyly Midas v. ii, And here I vow by my conceald beard, if euer it chaunce to be discouered to the worlde, that it maye make a pike deuant. 1594Taming of Shrew (1844) 22 You haue many boies with such Pickadeuantes. 1596Nashe Saffron Walden 5 Twice double his patrimonie hath he spent in carefull cherishing and preseruing his pickerdeuant. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxv. vi. 270 Wearing his beard..with a sharpe peake devant. 1618Owles Almanacke 49 The picky⁓deuant..will be the cutt. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. iv. i. 619 To turne vp his Munshato's, and curle his head, prune his Pickitivant. 1638R. Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. (vol. III.) 108 Hee consists wholly of a Pickedevant and two Mustachoes. [1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 391/1 The Pick-a-devant Beard..ends in a point under the chin. 1709Poor Robin (N.), Entreaties upon such an account, are as ridiculous as pickedevant beards, or trunck-breeches.]
β15942nd Rep. Dr. Faustus xvii. G iv, He takes the greate slaue by the tip of his pickenouant.
b. transf. A man with a picke-devant.
1636Heywood Challenge v. i. Wks. 1874 V. 68 Point me out the man. That Picke-devant that elbowes next the Queene.
Hence † pickedevanted a. Obs., having a picke-devant.
1591Harington Orl. Fur. xli. 349 note, Seldome goeth deuotion with youth, be it spoken without offence of our Peckedeuaunted Ministers. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. ii. ii. iv. 578 A young pickitiuanted [ed. 1676 pittivanted], trim⁓bearded fellow saith Hierome, will come with a company of complements. |