Beau Brummell
Americannoun
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George Bryan Brummell, 1778–1840, an Englishman who set the fashion in men's clothes.
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an extremely or excessively well-dressed man; fop; dandy.
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a dressing table for men, having a variety of elaborate arrangements of mirrors, candle brackets, etc. (invented in England in the late 18th century).
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Back when finely dressed men realized you didn’t have to hide the collar underneath folds of outerwear, Beau Brummell brought his out in dramatic fashion.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 12, 2023
Beau Brummell is credited with the simplification of the three-piece suit and the start of dandyism in the late 1790s and early 1800s.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 6, 2018
Nothing worn by the 19th-century British trendsetter Beau Brummell is known to survive; he died indebted and insane at the age of 61 in a French asylum in 1840.
From New York Times ● Apr. 18, 2013
As his headgear changed so did his attire, imitating the dandy of the day with Beau Brummell lapels and waistcoat piping.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2010
Beau Brummell and Lord Castlereagh are treated with similar liberality.
From Studies in Literature and History by Miller, John O.
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