dapper
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Safra brought in Juan Santa Cruz, a dapper banker turned restaurateur, to oversee the project, which includes a co-working space called Colette.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026
Rakell Foye supplied the period costumes—the Devil got a dapper suit and hat, and Robert’s outfit changed from country-boy drab to a slick purple outfit when he became the Delta King.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 9, 2025
Wardlaw looks like a skinny Santa Claus with long white hair and beard, but he was dressed somberly Saturday night, like a dapper Scrooge after his epiphany.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2025
The dapper youth in a hat was photographed outside the museum that Sunday and went viral on social media, prompting theories about his identity.
From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025
The old gentleman was thinner and wrinkled now but as dapper as ever.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
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