dandy

Adrienne cuts her leg on a rock, but Sara tends to it immediately with her handy dandy first aid kit.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2026

The dandy may have many names, but we know him when we see him—he projects the aristocrat’s “superior air and nonchalant ennui,” Mr. Andersson writes, only a little too much.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

Khan arrived on the red carpet in an outfit created by Indian designer Sabyasachi Mukherjee - decked out with his own dandy cane, plenty of bling and sunglasses.

From BBC ● Dec. 30, 2025

The holiday’s corpulent, white-bearded dandy arrived even later, his schmaltzy persona skimmed from bony St. Nicholas between Reconstruction and 1931, when Coca-Cola debuted its iconic, brandy-flushed Santa Claus.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 25, 2025

I could still climb just dandy with my other arm.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver

Some gentlemen are dandies, but most dandies are not gentlemen.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 15, 2026

He donned a royal blue Valentino cloak that paid homage to Andre Leon Talley, former editor-at-large on Vogue whom Anna Wintour called "a dandy among dandies."

From BBC ● May 5, 2025

The collection was inspired by aviation, and there were tailoring traces from the golden era of flight when dandies like Charles Lindbergh made history with solo crossings of the Atlantic.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 14, 2023

Nowadays, the phrase “the Regency”calls to mind BBC images of spotlessly dressed dandies, lascivious rakes and Elizabeth Bennet look-alikes chatting and flirting at the Brighton Pavilion.

From Washington Post ● May 29, 2019

The following day I went up to Harlem, an area that had assumed legendary proportions in my mind since the 1950s when I watched young men in Soweto emulate the fashions of Harlem dandies.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

Then maybe, just maybe, you could put in for the difference between the price of the humdrum machine and the price of the dandier dander remover.

From New York Times ● Nov. 12, 2022

It has drawn lumbersexuals of the dandier sort — furniture designers, creative directors, advertising executives and weekend carpenters — who don their finest houndstooth and tweeds for the occasion.

From New York Times ● Nov. 3, 2015

“There’s surely not a dandier picture in the world than a girl sitting in the shade sewing—white things,” he said at last, by way of greeting.

From The Law-Breakers by Ridgwell Cullum

There's not a dandier, better pal anywhere, than what Chum's been to me.

From His Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

“The amazing Master Tool Corporation, a subsidiary of Fly-By-Night Industries, has entrusted who? Me! To show you! The handiest and the dandiest kitchen tool you’ve ever seen.”

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 11, 2022

“As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy — a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts,” he writes.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 4, 2020

Of course, he looks great: a steel-grey silver fox, these days, but still flash in light parka and kick flares, quite the dandiest man in Blacks, the Soho club where we meet.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 28, 2010

As a young writer, I was the dandiest, cleverest wit and wise guy--a cinch if one possesses the meager gifts.

From Time Magazine Archive

“Good-by, old bunny, good-by, you’re the dandiest bunny there ever was,” they whispered in his long ears.

From Rootabaga Stories by Maud Fuller Petersham