Beard
A beard is the hair growing on the lower part of a man's face.
The hair that grows on the upper lip of some men is a mustache. When a man has hair only below the lower lip and above the chin, it is called a soul patch. Some men have a lot of hair and a big beard, and some have very little. In the modern world, many men shave part or all of their beards, or cut their beard so it does not get very long.
Some animals also have hair like this, and people sometimes also call this hair a beard.
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Phoenicians gave great attention to the beard, as can be seen in their sculptures.
The Israelite king Jehu kneels before Shalmaneser III as carved on the Black Obelisk. He and the Israelite delegation are distinguished from the Assyrians by distinctive beards.
Statue of Gilgamesh with elaborate beard
Aristotle with a beard
Gillette advert in the Literary Digest, 9 June 1917
Charles Evans Hughes, 11th Chief Justice of the United States from 1930 to 1941
Russian Orthodox monk with a full beard playing the semantron
