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Definition of Dandified
1. Adjective. Affecting extreme elegance in dress and manner.
Definition of Dandified
1. a. Made up like a dandy; having the dress or manners of a dandy; buckish.
Definition of Dandified
1. Verb. (past of dandify) ¹
2. Adjective. Characteristic (in dress and habits) of a dandy ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dandified
1. dandify [v] - See also: dandify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dandified
Literary usage of Dandified
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous Or Parallel Expressions by Richard Soule, George Holmes Howison (1891)
"Gay, dashing, dandified, foppish. Buckle, я. I. Clasp, brooch, broach. house of
prostitution, house of ill-fame. Brotherhood, n. 1. Relation of a brother, ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"So the dandified lawyer, with talking grown hoarse, Says, " I can say no more—let
the law take its course." Just fancy the gleam of the eye of the Jew, ..."
3. The Ingoldsby Legends Or Mirth and Marvels by Thomas Ingoldsby (1874)
"So the dandified Lawyer, with talking grown hoarse, Says, 'I can say no more—let
the law take its course.' Just fancy the gleam of the eye of the Jew, ..."
4. The Royal Phraseological English-French, French-English Dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1845)
"(a plant), dent de lion,/, pissenlit, m dandified, adj. mis avec une élégance
recherchée. ... You are quite dandified, vous êtes superbe—vous voilà eu vrai ..."
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