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Definition of Dapperly
1. dapper [adv] - See also: dapper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dapperly
Literary usage of Dapperly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Custom of the Country by Edith Wharton (1913)
"he said, taking her lifeless fingers into his dapperly gloved hand. Through her
veil she formed the words: "I said I'd come." He laughed. "That's so. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"Glibly and dapperly he gathers ив into a circle, and joins us hand in hand,
telling ue we have nothing to do but to buy and sell, let every one do as he ..."
3. Musical Portraits: Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Paul Rosenfeld (1920)
"Franck was of another temper. The impulse that drove him to make music was not
so weak and pliable. It could not be barbered and dapperly dressed and taught ..."
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