sapeur

plural sapeurs

1. AfricaA member of the social movement known as La Sape, who dress as dandies and put great emphasis on style and physical appearance.

   Since the 1920s, the sapeurs of the Congo have been making sartorial statements on the streets of Brazzaville and Kinshasa.

   2020 July 27, Trey Kay, “Congolese dandies: Meet the stylish men and women of Brazzaville”, in The Guardian, London: The Guardian Media Group, retrieved 01 Oct 2020

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   For these sapeurs, the essential thing was to dress elegantly, with name-brand clothes made by famous designers if possible.

   2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182