What is "dandies"

Usage examples of "dandies".

Billy Bagshot told the story that night, after the Lushai dandies had carried off the wounded and the sands of the desert had taken in the dead.

She whirled away into Piccadilly, nodding with the sweetest of smiles towards Miss Briggs, who hung nodding at the window close under the advertisement-card, and at the next moment was in the Park with a half dozen of dandies cantering after her carriage.

Scores of the great dandies of London squeezed and trod on each other on the little stairs, laughing to find themselves there.

She was chattering and laughing with a score of young dandies by the Serpentine, as the father and son entered at the old gates of the school—where Rawdon left the child, and came away with a sadder, purer feeling in his heart than perhaps that poor battered fellow had ever known since he himself came out of the nursery.

The gallant young Indian dandies at home on furlough—immense dandies these—chained and moustached—driving in tearing cabs, the pillars of the theatres, living at West End hotels,—nevertheless admired Mrs.

Then she determined upon a boarding-house existence, and lived for some time at that famous mansion kept by Madame de Saint Amour, in the Rue Royale, at Paris, where she began exercising her graces and fascinations upon the shabby dandies and fly-blown beauties who frequented her landlady’s salons.

Second rate dandies and roués, widow-ladies who always have a law-suit, and very simple English folks, who fancy they see “Continental society” at these houses, put down their money, or ate their meals, at Madame de Borodino’s tables.

Lady Portarles drew the curtain aside with a dramatic gesture and there of a truth across a satin-covered sofa, his head reclining against a cushion, fast asleep, lay the Prince of Dandies, Sir Percy Blakeney, Bart.

That Prince of Dandies had, incontinently, it seems, taken his elegant self off to a more congenial atmosphere.

And there are several fops and dandies such as Hoyt, who contrive to amuse her so as to be seen in her company.

She swiftly composed her expression when she noticed three lounging dandies gazing raptly at her.

Anatole was sitting upright in the classic pose of military dandies, the lower part of his face hidden by his beaver collar and his head slightly bent.

The Gardner guns, as Connor had said, were "fer the inimy," but the Lushai dandies were for the men that managed them that day.

Both dandies glowered, their hands going to the hilts of their swords in an obviously well-rehearsed gesture.