| ADJ | dandy | dandier | dandiest |
| NOUN | a dandy | dandies |
| SYNO | beau | clotheshorse | dandy | ... |
ADJ positive | comparative | superlative
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- Dandy {m} [geh.] = toff [Br.] [coll.] [pej.]
- Dandy {m} = fop
- Dandy {m} = cheese [Br.] [Cambridge U. sl.]
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- The black soldier became another stock type during the Civil War and merged qualities of the slave and the dandy.
- Mr. Laurence Calver - a dandy and Sir Waldo's other cousin.
- And they said she'd be a dandy, when she reaches Harbour Grace.
- The clothes-obsessed dandy first appeared in the 1790s, both in London and Paris.
- He is soon surrounded by his enemies: the drunk who wants to continue the fight, the angry dandy, and the dandy's wife.
- The horses were carried downhill in a special dandy wagon, usually attached to the end of the run of loaded wagons.
- Cutflower: School professor. A dandy and a fop.
- Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy – for example, "A Rake's Progress" by Hogarth, which Shonibare translates into "Diary of A Victorian Dandy" (1998), or his "Dorian Gray" (2001), named after Oscar Wilde's novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
- Known for his dandy aesthetic, Dickon has peroxide blonde hair and is often seen in a white, blue, or silver-grey three-piece suit, the silver-grey suit being a bequest from fellow London dandy Sebastian Horsley.
- Meanwhile an absurd little prose poem tells us of the dandy's infatuation with his own legs.
- Frances Webster did then take as her lover the Regency dandy Scrope Berdmore Davies.
- A Dandy loom was a hand loom, that automatically ratchetted the take-up beam.
- The family firm John Pilling and Sons Ltd, made hand, dandy and power looms from 1819.
- "Space Dandy" is an anime television series produced by Bones.
- Moers pointed to the ambiguous origins of the dandy, in a merger of French and English traditions; to the paradox in the dandy's highly structured pose of inaction; and to the role of the female dandy.
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