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Def'n/Etymology of "beard"

Mojo1

I was just talking to co-workers and they said that some hollywood starlet was a “beard”. I asked and got the defn’ that it meant she was a “sham” wife for a male lover guy.
-is this term commonly used?
-can it use to a “sham” husband of a lesbian?
Why “beard”? I can assess of 5 words off the highest of my chief that would portray the situation enhanced than “beard”.

system2

Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.

Gail3

Gay guys are not considered very masculine.
Facial hair is seen as masculine. So, anytime a lady is seen with a man a lot, people consider they are having sex. This will make the guy seem more masculine, (bearded) i.e. straight.
Elaine on Seinfeld was once a “beard” if I recall correctly.


Gail
“Any major dude with half a heart surely will say you, my friend–
Any minor society that breaks apart falls together again…”
-Steely Dan

Mojo4

Yes, a beard is any cover, which is how it originated–like a real beard, it covers things up and provides a disguise.

but a beard is genuine, even if it is for a disguise. And of

Green’s Dictionary of Slang

beardn.

1. female pubic hair; thus bearded adj.

A Hundred Merry Tales (1845) 39: ‘Sir, ye have a beard above and none beneath.’ [...] ‘Mistress, ye have a beard beneath and none above.’ ‘Marry, then set the one against t’other.’.
‘The New Exchange’ in FarmerMerry Songs and Ballads (1897) V 4: Here’s [...] False beards for a disguise, / Will help all maidens that are bare / In all parts of their thighes.
W. Drummond Epigram XII in Chalmers Eng. Poets (1810) V 695/1: When second should on her more years bestow, [...] That horse’s hair between her thighs would mature [...] But that this phrenzy should no more her vex, She swore thus bearded were their weaker sex.
Mercurius Fumigosus 7-14 Mar. 3: He drew his razor, and would have felt for her beard; and had she not resisted, he had doubtlesse shav'd her, and powder'd her with a P—x.
Wandring Whore III 4: I’ve done the business with discretion, and spilt my Posset on thy beard and in thy belly.
J. Oldham ‘Upon the Author of a Play call’d Sodom’ in Rochester Poems on Several Occasions (1680) 131: Or wear some stinking Merkin, for a Beard.

Women pay in ‘bearded’ relationships

One definition of the synonyms beard is found mostly in slang dictionaries, though the New Oxford Dictionary of English added the alternative definition a limited years ago.

A beard is defined as a lady who dates, or marries, a gay man to provide cover for the man’s homosexuality. The phrase also applies to a man who does the same for a sapphic woman. Current chatter at ABC.com is filled with beard comments concerning Tom Cruise’s new lady cherish. Cruise has long denied he is gay, but the rumors persist that Cruise dates and marries beautiful women, these so-called beards, to quash speculation about his sexual orientation.

A subtext to the Jim West story is the fact that West, who acknowledges he is a gay man, has also dated women, and married one. I know some of these women. I haven’t talked to them about this, and I don’t intend to. It’s none of my business.

But it has stirred for me this whole business of the “beard phenomenon” and the harm it does to women who assume the role of beard (unwittingly or not), the men who try it out, and our society that colludes in the deception, rather th

The sad reality of many bearded relationships

Season 2 of Made in Heaven, created by Zoya Akhtar and Reema Kagti, addresses relevant intimate relationship issues faced in our world in each of its 7 episodes. In episode 2 there is a brief, yet not-so-subtle reference to an issue that exists but is not spoken about enough in society. 

Karan (played by Arjun Mathur), one of the main characters, is gay. His mother is on her death bed and claims Karan’s sexual orientation is the reason for her reaching there. In this episode, Karan is asked by his masi (aunt) to marry a girl to appease his estranged mother and fulfill her wish to observe him married before she loses her battle to cancer. 

When he responds by saying that he can’t get married to a teen because he is gay, she counters it by saying that she is his “type”, and that and he should adjust for the sake of his dying mother, so that she can rest in peace. 

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I am glad Karan refused. But many succumb to this pressure. In accepted parlance, such a relationship or marriage would be called a “bearded” one. A beard is someone who marries (or d