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- adjective rare Coxcombical.
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- adjective Alternative form of
coxcombical .
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Examples
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These commendations will not, I am persuaded, make you vain and coxcomical, but only encourage you to go on in the right way.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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He appeared much better informed than we had previously concluded from his coxcomical exterior.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808 Lt-Col. Pinkney
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Mr. Cayley, a good-looking but rather coxcomical young man, he and his parents had resided at St. Petersburg.
A Journey to America in 1834 Robert Heywood 1827
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The undress, fanciful frock he wore in common was exchanged for the attire of one of his assumed rank and service, which had been made to fit his person with the nicest care, and with perhaps a coxcomical attention to the proportions of his really fine person; and in all other things was he speedily equipped for the disguise he chose to affect.
The Red Rover James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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These commendations will not, I am persuaded, make you vain and coxcomical, but only encourage you to go on in the right way.
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1749 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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These commendations will not, I am persuaded, make you vain and coxcomical, but only encourage you to go on in the right way.
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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Notwithstanding all exaggeration, Lylly was really a man of wit and imagination, though both were deformed by the most unnatural affectation that ever disgraced a printed page.] -- he, in short, who wrote that singularly coxcomical work, called _Euphues and his England_, was in the very zenith of his absurdity and his reputation.
The Monastery Walter Scott 1801
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