[Sca-cooks] Goatee stories - Rockrose

[Adele de Maisieres]

Suey wrote:

>    Goats came in handy as laudanum collecting devices from rockrose. 
>  
>

I think you mean labdanum. Laudanum is tincture of opium.

>While they munched on the plant, the oil stuck to their beards. Annually 
>the beards were cut and the oil extracted, i.e. those that the pharaohs 
>did not keep for themselves. They glued the goatees to their chins in 
>order to smell good and that is how the word for this type of beard came 
>into being. 
>

That's a very fanciful etymology.  I think it's mor likely that the the 
word goatee derives from the resemblance of a small human beard to a 
goat's beard.




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Adele de Maisieres

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