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
But I assure you, Baroness Stella, that Edgar has not a trace of such nonsensical coxcombry.
From Erlach Court by Schubin, Ossip
She only laughed at the coxcombry of the old inamorato, and was quite persuaded beforehand that such a sage damsel as pretty Michal would be more than a match for him.
From Pretty Michal by Jókai, Mór
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
This famous balance is a piece of critical coxcombry with which we never could have tolerable patience.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 by Various
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 Morley, John
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 Johnson, R. Brimley
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