dandy
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His 18th-century forerunners, the London macaroni and the Paris incroyable, had one foot in the court and the other in the city street, but the dandy, posh or not, lived in a middle-class, democratic society.
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
Yet he acquired a reputation as a dandy, a clever humorist and an intellectual showman, distinctly apolitical and seemingly a man of no convictions.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2025
You may be a dandy dealmaker and a nifty negotiator, but you’ve got a bargaining habit that you should really curb.
From Barron's • Oct. 17, 2025
The day that she saw him pass by her bedroom she thought that Pietro Crespi was a sugary dandy next to that protomale whose volcanic breathing could be heard all over the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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