Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Like a dandy; of dandy appearance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Like a dandy.

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  • adjective In the style of a dandy.

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  • adjective affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner

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Examples

  • The first model swaggered out on to the catwalk with long curly hair wearing a dandyish red frock coat and hat with a jaunty feather poking from it – this seemed like a nod to the label's absent founder.

    John Galliano Menswear on the catwalk, while he is in court 2011

  • Dark, dandyish, dashing, brooding – it combined an extraordinary mixture of male arrogance and almost feminine beauty, emphasised by vivid clothes, peacock hairstyles and smouldering glances.

    Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

  • On Sunday, Garmin—a Boulder, Colo., team known for its strict antidoping stance and its dandyish argyle outfits—captured the team-time trial event.

    A Loser's Winning Moment Jason Gay 2011

  • They live in Francophone Africa and affect dandyish dress and a smart lifestyle, at once aping and ridiculing their former European rulers.

    Observing Fine Birds And Fine Feathers William Meyers 2011

  • The first model swaggered out on to the catwalk with long curly hair wearing a dandyish red frock coat and hat with a jaunty feather poking from it – this seemed like a nod to the label's absent founder.

    John Galliano Menswear on the catwalk, while he is in court 2011

  • On Sunday, Garmin—a Boulder, Colo., team known for its strict antidoping stance and its dandyish argyle outfits—captured the team-time trial event.

    A Loser's Winning Moment Jason Gay 2011

  • He's been wearing three-piece suits, looking both dandyish and ultra-modern.

    Fashion's Top 10 Moments Christina Binkley 2011

  • There is also James Watson Allen, a dandyish motorcyclist who dressed in top hat and tails to ride his Harley-Davidson in an interracial motorcycle club called the Northernites Riders of White Plains.

    Exhuming History Melanie Grayce West 2011

  • He's been wearing three-piece tweeds, looking both dandyish and ultra-modern.

    Fashion Highlights From 2011 2011

  • In a career of more than 20 years, Mr. Hickenlooper directed several other feature films, including "The Man From Elysian Fields" (2002), with Andy Garcia in the role of a failed novelist who goes to work as a male escort for a dandyish boss played by Mick Jagger.

    George Hickenlooper dies: Emmy-winning director was 47 Emma Brown 2010

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