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coxcomb
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synonyms: fop, sciolist, witling, popinjay ???
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Definition:1. (a) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps. (b) The cap itself.2. The top of the head, or the head itself.3. A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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We will belabor you a little better, And beat a little more care into your coxcombs
Beaumont and Fletcher
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Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy of powdered coxcombs at her levee.
Goldsmith.
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Some are bewildered in the maze of schools, And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
Alexander Pope.
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“Oh, the coxcombs!” he muttered reproachfully.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: 10 (Book Ten)
---“Move along, you coxcomb,” Ignatius belched, the gassy eructations echoing between the walls of the alley.
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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