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Noun
Dapper Dan (plural Dapper Dans)
- (informal) A man who dresses and is groomed in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.
2001 December 18, “Timothy C. Kelly: A Dapper Throwback”, in New York Times, retrieved 12 December 2012:Timothy C. Kelly cultivated a taste for the chivalry and silk handkerchiefs of his parents' generation. "He was a man who enjoyed the finer things in life," said his wife, Julie. ". . . He was a Dapper Dan."
2010, Charles F. Lee, The Adventures of Ickle, Packy, Pickle and Gooch, →ISBN, page 49:“We call him Dapper Dan,” the chief pointed to a well-dressed man wearing a white shirt, tie, and a three-piece pin-striped suit.
2011, Colleen McCullough, Naked Cruelty, →ISBN:hey sat together in the front row, together with a very elderly fellow of the kind Carmine always called a “Dapper Dan”—a bit like the 1930s movie star, William Powell, even including the little mustache.
Translations
A man who dresses in a fancy, elegant, or fastidious manner.
- Bulgarian: франт m (frant)
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