Meaning dapper
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dapper


marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners Thoroughly dapper, he took off his black-and-white pinstriped suit jacket — with its pocket-square flair — and weaved in and out among them, his voice eve [..]
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mid-15c., "elegant," from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German dapper "bold, strong, sturdy," later "quick, nimble," from Proto-Germanic *dapraz, perhaps with ironical shift [..]
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(adj) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners
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dapper


A little, nimble, spruce young clerk in Ben Jonson’s Alchemist.
Source: bartleby.com





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