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Even the modern-dress costumes of Charlotte Palmer-Lane have an unexpected touch of dandyishness.
He's a Young Prince in a Jam Terry Teachout 2011
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There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language.
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The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language."
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Fastidiousness -- 'daintiness,' as he would have said -- dandyishness, as we might well say: by just that which marks him as a painter is he marked as a writer too.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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[Though decidedly hetero himself, most of his male friends at university were gay (he said he found them more entertaining, and mocked himself as "a male fag-hag"), and he cultivated a strain of feyness or campery in his personal style, both a certain dandyishness of dress and a bitchiness of humour.
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