dashing

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And he was proud as a boy of the simple bit of slap-dashing, and entirely absorbed in it and the pork-pie Presently he became aware that he was not alone.

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  1. adjective Audacious and gallant; spirited.
  2. adjective Marked by showy elegance; splendid: a dashing coat. See Synonyms at fashionable.

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  • Dark and dashing, the marquis de Montespan ;s finer qualities were unaccompanied by good breeding or common sense. —  Sex with Kings Eleanor Herman
  • The artist as a young man was handsome, dashing, and the darling of New York. —  AHMM, April 2002
  • Of the fearless, dashing, adventurous Englishman, ready to go anywhere and do anything, Hobart was a brilliantly representative type. —  Sketches From My Life
  • The stories Buntline wrote helped to .bring Buffalo Bill into prominence as a dashing, glamorous figure as the Memoirs of Chief Red Fox West was being industrialized and "civilized." —  Cheif Red Fox
  • How dashing, how much too dashing, they were; what drawn-in waists, what liberal smiles, what suspiciously white shoulders! —  My Flirtations
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dashing:   dash ·  dashes ·  dashed
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