Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The dress, manners, and social peculiarities of the class known as dudes.
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Examples
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There are communities in this free land of ours in which the wearing of a coat at dinner is a most disreputable mark of dudism.
The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Edward Eggleston 1869
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