jazz dot
English
Etymology
From its popularity among jazz musicians.
Noun
- A soul patch.
- 2005, Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN)
- The jazz dot or soul patch, the tuft of hair beneath the lower lip, is so common among “cats” who can play as to almost be considered a part of the saxophone embouchure.
- 2013, Barrie Jean Borich, My Lesbian Husband: Landscapes of a Marriage, Graywolf Press (→ISBN)
- [...] men with gray beards or homegrown dreadlocks or a sandy jazz dot on the chin, gathered around platters of organic turkey or homemade lasagna ...
- 2005, Michael Segell, The Devil's Horn: The Story of the Saxophone, from Noisy Novelty to King of Cool, Farrar, Straus and Giroux (→ISBN)
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