janty

While he was slumbering soundly in the cabin, many an eye was directed from the shore, and from the boats and vessels in the harbor, at the trim and janty yacht which had come in during the night.

Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859

She was even trimmer and more janty than he had supposed.

Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859

Now, really, our hero did not think half so much of the janty yacht he had captured as he did of the old tub, and we do not know that he would have taken the trouble to enter her cabin before he wanted a place to sleep, if he had not been hungry.

Little Bobtail or The Wreck of the Penobscot. Oliver Optic 1859

It was originally a small frame building; but my father had added to it one portion after another, until it became spacious; and the large porches in front and on the rear, gave it quite a genteel, janty air.

Sheppard Lee 1836

"Well, -- I think it very extraordinary," said Ned, with a dry laugh and an affected, janty air, as he took a turn into the middle of the room, -- "that the fountains of speech should be sealed up, when I had something of the greatest importance in the world to communicate to you."

Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. II. 1832

HONEYCOMB, who looks upon Love as his particular Province, interrupting our Friend with a janty Laugh; I thought, Knight, says he, thou hadst lived long enough in the World, not to pin thy Happiness upon one that is a Woman and a Widow.

The Spectator, Volume 2. Richard Steele 1700

I durst have sworn that very thing by your Air, your janty, way of Dress, your Perriwig.

Manley: The Lost Lover: Characters Manley 1696