FOXBOROUGH Mass. — Technically, it is called a Van Dyke, and Wikipedia tells us it is named for 17th-Century Flemish painter Anthony van Dyck who probably wasn’t the first person to go with the mustache, the chin beard and the clean-shaven cheeks in history, but he was the one savvy enough to take credit for it.
Those of us who wear them generally call them goatees, which is technically incorrect, because technically a goatee isn’t supposed to include a mustache. That is, after all, what separates a goatee from a Van Dyke. Technically anyway. Though, who are we kidding?