BRUMMELL

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• BRUMMELL (noun)
  The noun BRUMMELL has 1 sense:

1. English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840)

  Familiarity information: BRUMMELL used as a noun is very rare.

• BRUMMELL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

English dandy who was a fashion leader during the Regency (1778-1840)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Beau Brummell; Brummell; George Bryan Brummell

Instance hypernyms:

beau; clotheshorse; dandy; dude; fashion plate; fop; gallant; sheik; swell (a man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance)

 Context examples 

“Have you heard about Vereker Merton?” asked Brummell, strolling up with one or two other exquisites at his heels.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My view, exactly, and very neatly expressed,” cried Brummell.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Quite right,” said my uncle, who seemed to have made up his mind to outdo Brummell in extravagance.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“That young man is destined to take my place,” said my uncle, gravely, when Brummell had departed.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“There is Mr. Brummell, sir,” said I.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“You must not let anything I have said shake your faith in Sir Charles’s judgment, Mr. Stone,” said Brummell, very earnestly.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle laughed, and Brummell looked me up and down with his large, intolerant eyes.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was a good-sized man, this Brummell, with a long, fair face, light brown hair, and slight sandy side-whiskers.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then came the supremacy of Brummell, and the open breach upon the subject of velvet collars, in which the town followed the lead of the younger man.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was finished by the Marquis of Queensberry passing his arm through Brummell’s and leading him off, while my uncle threw out his laced cambric shirt-front and shot his ruffles as if he were well satisfied with his share in the encounter.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)