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coxcombry|ˈkɒkskəmrɪ|
[f. as prec. + -ry.]
†1. Foolishness, foolery. Obs.
1608Middleton Trick iii. iv, Thou kitchen-stuff-drab of beggary, roguery and cockscombry.
2. The action, behaviour, or manner characteristic of a coxcomb; foppery.
1774Westm. Mag. II. 348 Our spunk of valour is degenerated into coxcombry. 1828Macaulay Misc. Writ. (1860) I. 245 The solemn coxcombry of Pinkerton. 1857Gen. P. Thompson Audi Alt. I. xxii. 82 Military coxcombry and ignorance were always at work in India. 1870R. B. Brough Marston Lynch x. 82 Attired in a nautical suit of ineffable coxcombry.
b. (with a and pl.) A trait or characteristic of a coxcomb; a thing in which foppery is embodied.
1792W. Roberts Looker-on No. 16 There was no great appearance of trade in the city, except in coxcombries and gewgaws. 1793Ibid. No. 58 He..must even introduce his coxcombries, affectations, and eccentricities into..the pulpit. 1832L. Hunt Sir R. Esher (1850) 367 Unless it be a coxcombry in me, still, to say so. 1849Ruskin Sev. Lamps iv. §34. 124 A perfection..which by itself, and regarded in itself, is an architectural coxcombry. 1878Morley Diderot I. 137 Some of the coxcombries of literary modishness.
3. Coxcombs collectively.
1818Byron Beppo lxxv, Of coxcombry's worst coxcombs e'en the pink. 1823― Island ii. xiv, No babbling crowd Of coxcombry in admiration loud. |