Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1885-1885
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...bold, bad man." What is he, she, or it, then? Well, in the first place he generally "rags something less than 99 per cent., but he does not play the "Advocate's" little poker game. No. He wears glasses. Not dude glasses, nor goggles, nor the dapper gold-bowed spectacles, but great round moon-eyed glasses, glasses that would stew the brain of an ordinary man. And then he reads a little, you know. He is up with the lark; he is up with the bat; in fact he is never down. But speaking of being down, I remember...