Beau Brummell

Also Beau Brum·mel

[bruhm-uhl]

noun

1. George Bryan Brummell, 1778–1840, an Englishman who set the fashion in men's clothes.

2. an extremely or excessively well-dressed man; fop; dandy.

3. a dressing table for men, having a variety of elaborate arrangements of mirrors, candle brackets, etc. (invented in England in the late 18th century).

Example Sentences

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.

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There was also the “Brutus,” a longer style that took inspiration from the ancient Greeks — and was a favorite of the socialite Beau Brummell and his followers.

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Meanwhile, an eccentrically dressed man — not a dandy in the Beau Brummell mold but someone plainly interested in creating new and jarring shapes with his body and clothes — is a rare and electrifying sight.

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Beau Brummell is credited with the simplification of the three-piece suit and the start of dandyism in the late 1790s and early 1800s.

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No, that wasn’t the ghost of Beau Brummell haunting the runway.

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