subs. (colloquial).—A tufted beard on the point of a shaven chin. [In imitation of the tuft of hair on a goat’s chin.]

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  ENGLISH SYNONYMS (for a beard generally).—Charley; imperial; Newgate (or sweep’s) frill, or fringe.

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  FRENCH SYNONYMS.—Une marmouse (thieves’); un impériale (colloquial: formerly une royale); un bouc or une bouquine (= a goatee); bacchantes (thieves’: the beard, but more especially the whiskers, from bâche = awning).

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  GERMAN SYNONYM.—Soken (from the Hebrew; also = old man).

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  ITALIAN SYNONYMS.—Bosco di berlo (the forest on the face); settosa (= full of hair); spinola (= thorny).

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  SPANISH SYNONYM.—Bosque (= wood).

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  1869.  Orchestra, 18 June. Working carpenters with a straggling GOATEE on the chin, and a mass of unkempt hair on the head.

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