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Bearded

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Bearded Master (Magister barbaʹtus). So Persius styled Socratēs, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C. 468–399.)

Pogonaʹtus (Bearded). Constantine IV., Emperor of Rome (648, 668–685).

The Bearded. Geoffrey the Crusader, and Bouchard of the house of Montmorency.

Handsome-beard. Baldwin IV., Earl of Flanders. (1160–1186.)

John the Bearded. Johann Mayo, the German painter, whose beard touched the ground when he stood upright.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.