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A trans-Atlantic celebrity since the ’60s, Hockney cut a dandyish figure with rakish touches such as floppy bow ties, scarves, caps and pocket squares.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 12, 2026

The duke was a dandyish dresser who was much in the press in those days.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2023

The glib, dandyish Jefferson is a perfect foil for Hamilton: his rival, his intellectual equal and his sometimes reluctant partner in the construction of a new political order.

From New York Times • Jun. 30, 2020

Young Alison and her dandyish father were inversions of each other: “While I was trying to compensate for something unmanly in him,” she writes, “he was attempting to express something feminine through me.”

From Slate • Nov. 18, 2019

Everything was out of the normal, and the brilliant colors which would have seemed so dandyish to him at other times appealed to him now.

From The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve by Altsheler, Joseph A. (Joseph Alexander)