coxcombry
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of coxcombry
Example Sentences
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The puppyism and coxcombry of such a wager might have been pardoned, were it not that the character of the individual, when sober, was in perfect accordance with this drunken boast.
From Jack Hinton The Guardsman by Lever, Charles James
Why, somewhat heartless; for, suppose Jules45 a coxcomb as much as you choose, still, for this mere coxcombry, you will have brushed off—what do folks style it?—the bloom of his life.
From Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning by Reynolds, Myra
But Howell was not only much more of a gossip than Izaak; he was also a good deal of a coxcomb, while Walton was destitute of even a trace of coxcombry.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
From this to a very dashing coxcomb is but half a step, and, to be rid of the coxcombry and retain a look of fashion, is still within the easy limits of imitation.
From Stories by American Authors (Volume 4) by Woolson, Constance Fenimore
The effeminacy and coxcombry of a man’s ruff and band are well ridiculed by many of our dramatic writers.
From A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern by Hindley, Charles
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