Example sentences for: dandies

How can you use “dandies” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • As Baudelaire put it in his essay "The Painter of Modern Life": "All the complicated material conditions to which [dandies] submit, from an impeccable toilette at every hour ...

  • There are also references to 17 th -century pirates, Arabian Nights sultans, Regency bucks, fin-de-siècle dandies and depraved noblemen of the ancien r(gime .

  • Pants were an old story, and they were no longer strictly male; but the 1960s short-tunic-and-tights costume, especially when worn with high boots, cropped hair, and a hip-level belt, seemed to put girls into the clothes of Renaissance youths, so they looked like Carpaccio dandies or Ghirlandaio toughs.

  • Between 1789 and 1815 the chapel assumed various guises: a flour warehouse during the Revolution and a club for high-ranking dandies, then an archive for Napoléon’s Consulate.

  • Suggesting, as it did, the remote look of both the unworldly priesthood and the potent monastic orders, black garb was often the anti-fashion choice of dandies and intellectuals, of Hamlet the anxious prince, Byron the smoldering poet, and Baudelaire the austere, afflicted critic.


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