Brewer's: Bearded

Bearded Master (Magister barbatus). So Persius styled Socrates, under the notion that the beard is the symbol of wisdom. (B.C.468-399.)

Pogonatus
(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.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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