Goatee
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In the traditional taxonomy of facial hair, a goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin. The word probably originated from the tuft of hair seen on an adult goat.
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[edit] Goatee styles
- French Fork – a double pointed goatee
- Musketeer – a small, pointed goatee with an English moustache (narrow, prominent), as worn by the French mousquetaires
- Van Dyck – a thick goatee and moustache with upturned ends, as worn by the 17th century Flemish painter Sir Anthony van Dyck. In modern usage, a Van Dyck is often any moustache and goatee combination.
Depending on the wearer and his personality, goatees are worn either fully maintained and trimmed daily, or they can be worn quite robust. The style is also based on the wearer's facial construction. Someone with a rounder face may crop his goatee one way, while a person with a longer face may treat it differently.
In the state of Kerala, India, the goatee is also popularly referred to as a Bulganin, after the erstwhile premier of the Soviet Union.
[edit] Similar facial hair styles
- The royale (or impériale) – a tuft of hair under the lower lip (without a goatee, but perhaps worn with a moustache). While the royale was historically worn by French officers as a badge or adornment of military rank or status, it is not technically a goatee. It is sometimes referred to as a "soul patch".
- Tiered goatee – a goatee that has variable lengths of hair to create a multi-leveled beard. This is used to create some sort of distinction between different sections of a beard.
- Chin beard – a beard formed solely by a tuft of hair on the chin (i.e. lacking accompanying mustache)
- Circle beard (or moutee) – a chin beard and mustache which are connected by hair on each side of the mouth to form a complete circle.
- Rico – a very fine arrow-pointed goatee. It can also be worn with a soul patch. The soul patch does not connect with the goatee. It is worn by master cigar maker George Rico.
- Chin Bush/Chin Shrub - similar to the goatee, but kept to a cleaner cut
[edit] Goatees in fiction
In fiction, goatees are often associated with antagonists, such as Satan, and figures associated with the Satanic. In Doctor Who, the Doctor's arch enemy the Master wears a Van Dyke (goatee with connected mustache) in his two most prominent incarnations played by different actors. However, in the Half-life series the protagonist, Gordon Freeman, also has a goatee.
[edit] Star Trek
In Mirror, Mirror, an episode of the television series Star Trek, the crew encountered evil counterparts of themselves. The evil version of Spock was distinguished by a goatee. It is this version of Spock which inspired the band Spock's Beard in its naming. However several prominent fictional protagonists sport a goatee, such as comic book characters Green Arrow and Tony Stark.
This has been parodied several times. Examples include Mystery Science Theater 3000 (episode "Last of the Wild Horses"), South Park (episode "Spookyfish" in which Cartman's evil twin is actually good), Futurama (episode "Lesser of Two Evils" which introduced Flexo, which happens to be the "good" version of Bender), Family Guy (episode 5x02, "Mother Tucker"), Megas XLR (Episodes "Rearview Mirror, Mirror Part 1 & 2", which featured a skinny and evil version of the hero), and the webcomic Dinosaur Comics.
[edit] See also
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