dashy
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of dashy
Example Sentences
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It was a visitor, and he came alone—a young fellow of dashy appearance, handsome black hair and whiskers, and very black eyes.
From Cudjo's Cave by J. T. (John Townsend) Trowbridge
And I probable wuzn’t so dressy as Miss Sheba, ’tennyrate I hadn’t no crown or septer, a brown straw bunnet and umbrell meetin’ my wants better, but not nigh so dashy lookin’.
From Samantha at Coney Island and a Thousand Other Islands by Marietta Holley
Advancing to meet them came a dashy checked suit.
From The Perils of Pauline by Charles Goddard
Mrs. Jeremy," exclaimed the doctor; "what is there delightful, I want to know, in travelling about with an arrogant old tyrant, his blind daughter, upstart dashy wife, and her two fine-lady nieces?
From The Lamplighter by Maria S. Cummins
It was a dashy barouche, drawn by a glossy-black span, and occupied by two ladies and a lapdog.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866 by Various
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