pogonotrophyn.
/ˌpəʊɡəˈnɒtrəfi/, U.S. /ˌpoʊɡəˈnɑtrəfi/ The cultivation or growing of a beard.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > [noun] > cultivation of the beard
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the world > life > the body > hair > hair on lower part of face > [noun] > beard > growing of
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1854 Westm. Rev. July 54 The wearing of the beard by some questionable vagabonds who called themselves philosophers, was but a corruption of the institution of Pogonotrophy.
1861 Temple Bar 3 261 Ten years' experience may have made ourselves a little enthusiastic in favour of pogonotrophy.
1883 G. Rolleston in Archaeologia 47 455 There appears to be some necessary correlation between Hippophagy, Pogonotrophy, and perhaps Paganism.
1966 Daily Mail 29 Oct. 1/1 This week's picture of Beatle George Harrison wearing a moustache—and a particularly sad, droopy looking one at that—caught students of pogonotrophy the world over in two minds.
2001 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 22 Nov. 20 Pogonotrophy has become a dying art in Afghanistan since the Northern Alliance took over Kabul and clean shaven became the hot look on the street.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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