A goatee from the late 1880s on Dutch folk hero Dorus Rijkers

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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.

[edit] Goatee styles

Soviet premier Bulganin, 1955 - 1958

• 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 India, the goatee is sometimes referred to as a Bulganin, after Bulganin who sported one.^[1][2]

[edit] Similar facial hair styles

19th century English explorer Richard Francis Burton wearing a distinctive goatee in the "French Fork" style.

• The royale (or impériale) – a tuft of hair under the lower lip without a goatee, perhaps worn with a moustache, as worn by the younger Napoleon III of France - a vandyke in English-speaking terms. 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" or flavor savor.
• 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.
• Circle beard (or moutee) – a goatee 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
• vandyke - mustache and goatee, not necessarily connected.

[edit] Goatees in fiction

In Doctor Who, the Doctor's arch enemy the Master wears a circle beard (goatee with connected mustache) in his two most prominent incarnations played by different actors. However several fictional protagonists sport a goatee, such as Half-Life's Gordon Freeman, and comic book characters Green Arrow and Tony Stark.

[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. This practice of identifying otherwise identical evil doubles as having a goatee has since been used many times in popular culture. 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"), Knight Rider (Garth Knight), Megas XLR (Episodes "Rearview Mirror, Mirror Part 1 & 2", which featured a skinny and evil version of the hero), Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, and the webcomic Dinosaur Comics.

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• Beard
• Moustache
• Sideburns
• Soul patch