Science Fair Project Dictionary
Dapper
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Etymology
From daper , elegant.
Adjective
dapper
- neat, trim
- stylishly dressed, neatly dressed
Quotations
neatly dressed
- 1917: Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert. — P.G.Wodehouse, The Man With Two Left Feet, 1917.
neat, trim
- 1892: This entrance is through a little courtyard, in which is the stable and coach-house combined, where Madame Perinere, a lady who paints the magic word "Modes" beneath her name on the door-post of number seventeen, keeps the dapper little cart and pony which carry her bonnets to the farthest corner of Paris. — Henry Seton Merriman, The Slave Of The Lamp, 1892
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