Mai 8, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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DANDY. That’s the dandy; i.e. the ton, the clever thing: an expression of similar import to “That’s the barber.” DANDY GREY RUSSET. A dirty brown. His coat’s dandy grey ruffet, the colour of the Devil’s nutting bag. DANDY PRAT. An … Weiterlesen
Mai 8, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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an effeminate coxcomb; seems, er d’hanne dije; q. e. there the effeminate man is in perfection; here we see a complete specimen (exemplification) of a womanish man; of habits natural to the female, but unnatural to the male, and therefore … Weiterlesen
Mai 3, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Mr. URBAN, R, Hants, July 10. THE word Dandipart, or Dandiprat, has, we believe, not been well defined by any author, otherwise than by way of contempt and ridicule; and the term Dandy, on the same principle, at the present … Weiterlesen
Mai 3, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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fop n Fop, dandy, beau, coxcomb, exquisite, dude, buck are comparable when denoting a man who is conspicuously fashionable or elegant in dress or manners. Fop is applied to a man who is preposterously concerned with fashionableness, elegance and refinement … Weiterlesen
April 28, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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1845 begründete Jules Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly mit seiner Studie “Du dandysme et du George Brummell” die Dandy-Forschung. Sein eigener Dandysmus zeigt sich in seinem erzählerischen Werk wie auch in seinen Aphorismen, die nun erstmalig von Gernot Krämer ins Deutsche übertragen … Weiterlesen
April 27, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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DANDY (engl., spr. Dändi), in England ein Mann, der viel mit Leuten à la mode umgeht und bei anständiger Herkunft und Vermögen gewisse allgemeine Begriffe vom guten Geschmack hat. Daher drückt das Wort Stutzer, Modenarr den Begriff keineswegs aus. Quelle: … Weiterlesen
April 27, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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TO THE EDITOR. “What things are they of doubtful gender, Tipp’d at each end with brass, and slender, Like broomstick of the witch of Endor? They’re dandies.” Sir,, Can any of your book-learned correspondents inform me of the real, or … Weiterlesen
April 20, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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All this, my dear friend, I submit to your own good sense and deliberate consideration. In the meanwhile, I shall endeavour to enable you to judge with more precision of the advantages of my plan, by throwing together, for your … Weiterlesen
April 10, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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Mr. EDITOR, I HAD the misfortune to dine alone yesterday, (an evil which sometimes occurs to us bachelors,) and, having nothing better to do in the evening, I took down a volume of Johnson and Steevens’s Shakspeare, to pass away … Weiterlesen
März 30, 2008
von Melanie Grundmann
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DANDY. That’s the dandy; i.e. the ton, the clever thing; an expression of similar import to “That’s the barber.” DANDY. In 1820, a fashionable non-descript. Men who wore stays to give them a fine shape, and were more than ridiculous … Weiterlesen