Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or resembling a dandy or dandies; dandified.
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- adjective
Dandyish ; like adandy .
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Examples
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The rest of him by no means dandiacal, even the vanity of glasses long since abandoned.
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Dolomore in question was a young man of rather offensive type — athletic, dandiacal, and half-educated.
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Whether we think of him in his relation to history or psychology, dandiacal or dramatic art, he is a salient, pathetic figure.
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Yes! costume, dandiacal or not, is in the highest degree expressive, nor is there any type it may not express.
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For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.
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Not that Monsieur's analysis of the dandiacal mind is worthless by any means.
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For in him the dandiacal temper had been absolute hitherto, quite untainted and unruffled.
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The rest of him by no means dandiacal, even the vanity of glasses long since abandoned.
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Edwin nodded sympathetically, perceiving with satisfaction that beneath his Metropolitan mannerism, and his amusing pomposities, and his perfectly dandiacal clothes, Charlie still remained the Sunday, possibly more naive than ever.
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A young and dandiacal fellow told, as a fact which he was ready to vouch for with a pistol, how Cora Pearl, the renowned English courtesan, had through her influence over a prefect of police succeeded in visiting a criminal alone in his cell during the night preceding his execution, and had only quitted him an hour before the final summons.
jaime_d commented on the word dandiacal
sarcastic term for the English Dandy type
from Carlyle's "Sartor Resartus"
January 11, 2009