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A goatee is a beard formed by a tuft of hair on the chin resembling that of a billy goat. The goatee underwent a renaissance in the 1990s, when a close-cropped variant with an integrated moustache was popularized by the musicians, actors and sports heroes of the day.
Like the beard, the goatee is most commonly seen in combination with a moustache. However, since the beginning of the 21st Century, this has begun to change and new styles have begun to emerge. Frequently, goatees are worn concomitant with either very short hair styles, or even completely shaved heads.
Goatee styles
- 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.
Similar facial hair styles
- The royale (or impériale) is 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 "bitch", "soul patch", or "nubbin".
- A tiered goatee is a goate that has variable lengths of hair to create a multi-levelled beard. This is used to create some sort of distinction between different sections of a beard.
Goatees in fiction
In satirical fiction, the goatee is often a symbol of a character's evil twin. This may be due to historical portrayals of the devil sporting a goatee, and has been used in plot lines such as the episode Mirror, Mirror of the television series The Original Series, in which the character Spock had an evil alternate in the Mirror Universe who possessed a goatee.Notable parodies include:
- South Park episode Spookyfish — Cartman's evil twin from a parallel universe looks just like him, but has a goatee and moustache.
- Futurama episode Lesser of Two Evils — Bender's twin Flexo has a goatee magnet.
- Dinosaur Comics' Mirror Universe — Utahraptor switches places with his alternate in a "mirror world," in which everyone is evil and has a goatee. *
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