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Coxcombery.
It's the Word of the Day at the OED today, and what a great word! We need to use it. It's amusing. A quite useful, because it means "Conceitedness, vanity, pretentious affectation; foppery."Examples:
1774 Lady's Mag. Aug. 436/2 A waterman, honest and blunt; and a gardener, made up of coxcombery and foppishness, pay their respective addresses to her.I'm not entirely sure who "Jack Essences" were. Some sort of ill-conducted soldiers? And I'm wondering about "jack-the-lad" too. Ah! It's "a brash, self-assured young man" (OED).
1837 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 581/1 The Jack Essences either perished for want of ‘Warren's Milk of Roses’ to wash with..; or else..they threw aside their slough of effeminate coxcombery, and turned into brave and well-conducted soldiers.
1921 E. L. White Andivius Hedulio i. i. 8 Travelling long distances by litter..had become a fashion through the extreme coxcombery of wealthy fops.
2002 Times (Nexis) 31 Aug. 24 Listen to rap music.., feel the empty bravado and jack-the-lad bombast, and you will have the whole damn strutting coxcombery in a nutshell.
As for Warren's Milk of Roses, here's a recipe: "Two ounces of rose water, a tea-spoonful of oil of sweet almonds, and twelve drops of oil of tartar must be put into a bottle, and the bottle well shaken till the whole combines." It was "highly recommended... by most females of distinction, for clearing and preserving the skin, and for rendering the complexion delicately fair and beautiful: it entirely removes redness, sunburn and freckles."
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