Meaning of beardism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Prejudice against bearded people.
   rare, uncountable
2. The period during which one has a beard.
   dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable
3. A support for beards; a favourable opinion of beards.
   dated, nonce-word, rare, uncountable

Examples

“Meanwhile, early in 2001, the Equal Opportunities Branch of Britain's Home Office conducted "sensitivity groups" whose members were asked to note⟳ their "beardism" (i.e., beard-racism), or negative associations to facial hair.”

“When the Americans first took me on there was great debate⟳ about it. They thought it might be seen as shifty or untrustworthy. They said, 'Oh he's got a beard!'; 'Well, maybe it's a European thing'; 'Oh hey, that's OK then'. Beardism is rampant.”

“the incipient horse guardsman — a tall hobbledehoy just budding into gooseberry beardism”

“arguments […] neither wholly for, nor yet entirely against the propagation of beardism”

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