coxcomb

• "De la Ventileria" is the unmeaning name given to a frivolous coxcomb, instead of "De la Ventilera." —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844
• Plato! you have paved the way With your confounded fantasies, to more Immoral conduct by the fancied sway Your system feigns o'er the controulless core Of human hearts, than all the long array Of poets and romancers:--You 're a bore A charlatan, a coxcomb--and have been At best, no better than a go-between And Julia's voice was lost, except in sighs Until too late for useful conversation The tears were gushing from her gentle eyes I wish indeed they had not had occasion But who, alas! —  Don Juan
• It was a family triumvirate, formed of an old Bachelor, whose cent per cent ideas predominated over every other, wheresoever situated or howsoever employed; his maiden Sister, prim, starch and antiquated; and their hopeful Nephew, a complete coxcomb, that is, in full possession of the requisite concomitants--ignorance and impudence, and arrayed in the first style of the most exquisite dandyism. —  Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)
• What do you see in that silly coxcomb, anyhow If you mean Captain Phipps," Eleanor said with dignity, "I see a great deal. —  Quin
• If a man discourses continually of his wines, his plate, his titled acquaintances, the number and quality of his horses, his men-servants and maid-servants, he must discourse very skilfully indeed if he escapes being called a coxcomb. —  Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country

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