dandy

• The newspapers occasionally mentioned him as a dandy, a fop, a whimsical, irresponsible creature, yet one whose vagaries were not entirely without interest. —  The Folly Of Eustace 1896
• The Duke replenished his glass, hoping the spell might work yet.... Perhaps, had Byron not been a dandy--but ah, had he not been in his soul a dandy there would have been no Byron worth mentioning. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• For him, master-dandy, the common arena was no place. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• Well, the true dandy is always capable of such high independence. —  Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story
• There's never any use trying to hide the fact that you're a jim-dandy--you're bound to be found out. —  Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son Being the Letters written by John Graham, Head of the House of Graham ; Company, Pork-Packers in Chicago, familiarly known on 'Change as "Old Gorgon Graham," to his Son, Pierrepont, facetiously known to his intimates as "Piggy."

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