coxcombs

The rustics, on their side, resisted these privileged lackeys and called them "coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows.

Gerfaut — Complete Charles de Bernard 1827

"coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Old maids are prim'd — the coxcombs cough perfume,

The Age Reviewed 2010

And people say that those are young Parisian coxcombs in disguise.

The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories Franz Kafka 2000

Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword.

Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

“Never, while there are empty-pated coxcombs at each corner to keep it warm.”

The Abbot 2008

He was, in short, one of those respectable links that connect the coxcombs of the present day with those of the last age, and could compare, in his own experience, the follies of both.

Saint Ronan's Well 2008

These impatient coxcombs think that all men, like themselves, are miserable, save when in saddle and stirrup.

Quentin Durward 2008