dandizette

plural dandizettes

1. archaicA female dandy.

   The accompanying cut is from a rather broadly caricatured print of a dandizette of the year 1819.

   1849, Thomas II Wright, England Under the House of Hanover

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   A witch, be it understood, Funny and fair and good, Tiny and pretty and jolly; A love, a sweet, a prize, a pet, An airy, fairy dandizette, A maid of honor to Cupid god, A fairy girl of the period, A wee little lady of delicate breeding, Foreign to horror and melancholy, and guiltless of any uncanny proceeding.

   1871, The Atlantic - Volume 27, page 162

   Men are, perhaps, slower in following new modes than women, and more averse to making themselves ridiculous ; but a dandy is an inferior specimen of human nature to a dandizette — as some old song calls the female of the species.

   1871, George Augustus Sala, Edmund Hodgson Yates, Temple Bar - Volume 33, page 98

   His pantomimic colloquies with the other sex, too, were inimitable - his mincing affectation, when addressing a dandizette; his broad bold style, when making love to a fisherwoman - were all true to Nature.

   1969, John Russell Brown, Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, page 111

   Synonyms: dandyess, quaintrelle, dandyess, dudelet, quaintrelle · Antonyms: barbermonger, beau, blade, blood, buck, carpet knight, cockscomb, dandy