Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.
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- noun The manners and dress of a
dandy .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the manner and dress of a fop or dandy
Etymologies
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Examples
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Yet the idealism implicit in his project, which, I have suggested, runs parallel to dandyism, is complicated by the awareness that the
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The rider, a young man with a very handsome face, and dressed with that peculiar care which we commonly call dandyism, cried out, good-humouredly, "Don't be afraid; the horse sha'n't hurt any of you.
My Novel — Volume 06 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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The rider, a young man with a very handsome face, and dressed with that peculiar care which we commonly call dandyism, cried out, good-humouredly, "Don't be afraid; the horse sha'n't hurt any of you.
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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"And you could go on to argue that their particular kind of dandyism was socially conservative and even contributed to the Thatcher mood.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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"And you could go on to argue that their particular kind of dandyism was socially conservative and even contributed to the Thatcher mood.
GreenCine Daily 2009
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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Oscar Wilde's ability to skewer societal hypocrisies is masterful -- and his 1895 farce The Importance of Being Earnest is a pitch-perfect send-up of Victorian pseudo-morality and the embodiment of fin de siècle British dandyism.
Fern Siegel: Stage Door: The Importance of Being Earnest Fern Siegel 2011
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The most amusing part, however, is that it's written by what one chronicler of dandyism (Captain Gronow) describes as a failed fashionophile, who "dressed in the worst possible taste, wore sparkling jewels on a dirty shirt front, and diamond rings on unwashed fingers."
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As such, the 1880s and 1890s found dandyism once more of good repute.
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