goatee
{{Short description|Style of beard}}
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File:Paul Wall.jpg seen sporting a goatee]]
A goatee is a style of facial hair incorporating hair on the chin entirely. The exact nature of the style has varied according to time and culture.
Description
Until the late 20th century, the term goatee was used to refer solely to a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin—as on the chin of a goat, hence the term 'goatee'.{{cite web | url = https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/goatee | title = goatee | access-date = 2024-04-12 | publisher = Merriam-Webster Dictionary}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} By the 1990s, the word had become an umbrella term used to refer to any facial hair style incorporating hair on the chin but not the cheeks;{{cite news
|title=Year of the Goat: Goatee is kicking again
|last=Howard
|first=Rebecca
|work=The Globe and Mail|location=Toronto
|date=10 September 1992
}} there is debate over whether this style is correctly called a goatee or a Van Dyke.{{cite news
|title=Goatees, the new hair apparent
|last=Shrieves
|first=Linda
|work=The Buffalo News
|date=12 November 1993}}
History
The style dates back to ancient Greece and ancient Rome. The god Pan was traditionally depicted with goat-like features, including a goatee. When Christianity became the dominant religion and began copying imagery from pagan myth, Satan was given the likeness of Pan,{{cite book|title=The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity|last=Burton Russell|first=Jeffrey|author-link=Jeffrey Burton Russell|publisher=Cornell University Press|year=1987|isbn=0801494095|pages=125–126|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D2-Na937xRYC&pg=PA125}} leading to Satan traditionally being depicted with a goatee{{cite book|title=A Dictionary of Literary Symbols|last=Ferber|first=Michael|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2017|isbn=978-1-107-17211-1|chapter=Goat|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=710yDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT311}} in medieval art and Renaissance art.
The goatee would not enjoy widespread popularity again until the 1940s, when it became a defining trait of the beatniks in the post–World War II United States. The style remained popular amongst the counter-culture until the 1960s before falling out of favor again. In the 1990s, goatees with incorporated mustaches became fashionable for men across all socioeconomic classes and professions.
Gallery
File:Skeletal easter island statue.JPG|A Moai kavakava from Easter Island
File:Arnold Böcklin Faun e Amsel zupfeifend (1).JPG|Painting of Pan by Arnold Böcklin (1864–65)
File:Henry M. Hoyt cropped.jpg|Henry M. Hoyt ({{Circa}} 1865–80)
File:Thomas Settle judge - Brady-Handy.jpg|Thomas Settle (c. 1865–80)
File:William H. Hunt - Brady-Handy.jpg|William H. Hunt (c. 1865–80)
File:Benjamin Disraeli by Cornelius Jabez Hughes, 1878.jpg|Benjamin Disraeli (1878)
File:Thomas Henry Carter cph.3b27384.jpg|Thomas Henry Carter (1909)
File:Robswireatlanta.jpg|Rob Swire (2009)
See also
References
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