What is "dundreary"

Usage examples of "dundreary".

I must acquaint you, said Mr Crotthers, clapping on the table so as to evoke a resonant comment of emphasis, old Glory Allelujurum was round again today, an elderly man with dundrearies, preferring through his nose a request to have word of Wilhelmina, my life, as he calls her.

Nor was her first visit to the Old Vic a happy one, for the play was The Comedy of Errors, very cleverly transformed by a young director with his name to make into a mid-Victorian farce, in which the two Antipholuses, in chimney-pot hats and Dundreary whiskers, and the two Dromios, in identical liveries, rushed up and downstairs on a twirly scaffolding which was called Ephesus, until at last they were united with an Aemilia and a Luciana in crinolines and ringlets.

MacGregor's beaky nose and thin lips were framed with extravagant Dundreary whiskers of vivid auburn.

He had gone into the regen-tank before Margaret Strayhorn had finally agreed to marry him, and now he once again looked like what he had been in his youth, the champion caber-thrower at the annual Caledonian Games, tall and dark-haired, with snapping black eyes and a snowplow jaw decorated at the sides with archaic dundreary whiskers.

Apparently in response to some invisible signal, a middle-aged Horse Guards officer, stout and wearing Dundreary whiskers, was there and bowing to Daphne.

He was stout, with an enormous set of Dundreary whiskers and a meerschaum pipe which he tamped down violently.