The "soul patch"

[Orin Hargraves]

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>Here's a differently named, contemporaneous description, courtesy HDAS:
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>1956 E. Hunter _Second Ending_ 342: Dizzy Gillespie...wears a
>little beard here under his lip, a sort of a goatee, a little
>triangular thing. We call it a "Dizzy kick" in the trade.
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>Jesse Sheidlower
>OED

The term I learned for this growth, circa 1982 from a Californian, was "womb
broom".

Orin Hargraves