Dandies
Meaning
of Dandy
Source: Webster's dictionarySynonyms
Examples
I just love the way the '60s rock stars put themselves together, because they were like dandies and peacocks. They really lived out their fantasies - and dressed their fantasies.
George Mount will direct Richard Brinsley Sheridan's 18th-century comedy of manners, full of false identities and well-meaning deceptions, and, as the producers say, "duels, dandies, deceptions, and dudes with daddy issues."
He put the finishing touches on suits for Al Pacino, Leonardo DiCaprio, David Koch, Larry Kudlow and countless managing directors, doctors and dandies.
Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–1820 must have been a strange race.
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette.
Other French intellectuals also were interested in the dandies strolling the streets and boulevards of Paris.