coxcombry
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He had been some time a widower, had long retired from the service, was less given to quarrels and coxcombry, but more trivial and teasing.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 by Various
Something of a visionary, too, was Sir Balthazar;—yet, with all his vanity as to his own merits—his coxcombry about his proceedings,—a sort of reformer and benefactor also in a small way.
From Art in England Notes and Studies by Dutton Cook
And, even more base than his coxcombry, he despised her because it was he, Edwin, to whom she had taken a fancy.
From Clayhanger by Arnold Bennett
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 Myra Reynolds
At the south, gentlemen, without the charge of coxcombry or effeminacy, wear them in the button-holes of their vests—fair girls wreathe them in their hair, and children trudge to school loaded with bouquets.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 2 by Jonathon Holt Ingraham
In another he remonstrates against certain frivolous affectations, and some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
From Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) by John Morley
And all these coxcombries are the appendages of, as it seems to us, as little intellect as the rings and brooches of the Exquisite in a modern novel.
From Famous Reviews by R. Brimley Johnson
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