dandify
Americanverb (used with object)
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Was she going to the races or a match, or a kettle-drum, that she must dandify herself with particular shades of color?
From Stories by American Authors, Volume 6 by Various
“Dandyism was imposed on Black men in Europe during the 1700s, as the Atlantic slave trade created a trend in fashionably dressed, or dandified, servants,” Miller continues.
From Salon ● May 6, 2025
With his trademark white linen suits and two-tone shoes, Wolfe did later seem like a dandified figure from the cover of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.”
From New York Times ● May 15, 2018
But I like the ad, which has Christopher Walken saying the product name three times, forcefully, while a dandified Justin Timberlake looks on, not saying a word.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2017
Roberto Montenegro’s “Portrait of Xavier Villaurrutia” portrays an elegant, dandified figure who is the polar opposite of the macho, chest-thumping strivers who populate the work of the muralists.
From Economist ● Oct. 27, 2016
Francie saw practical black two-seaters drawn by a single high-stepping horse controlled by dandified young men in kid gloves with edges turned back to look like inverted cuffs.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
The major smiled as he saw the boy dandifying himself in the glass: the old gentleman was not displeased with the appearance of the comely lad.
From A History of Pendennis, Volume 1 His fortunes and misfortunes, his friends and his greatest enemy by Thackeray, William Makepeace
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