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  2. Dandy - Wikipedia

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    Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...

  3. Traje de luces - Wikipedia

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    Capote de paseo: a vestige of the 19th-century promenade cape, this is a short silk mantle with rich and luxurious embroidery which is used during the paseíllo. Before the main performance starts, this ornate cape is exchanged for a more utilitarian red or purple muleta , a long cape used to entice the bull to charge.

  4. Macaroni (fashion) - Wikipedia

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    Many modern critics view the macaroni as representing a general change in 18th-century British society such as political change, class consciousness, new nationalisms, commodification, and consumer capitalism. [4] The macaroni was the Georgian era precursor to the dandy of the Regency and Victorian eras.

  5. List of the oldest buildings in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Later additions to the Loomis house were made around the turn of the 18th century. It is now a part of the Loomis Chaffee School. Newman–Fiske–Dodge House: Wenham: MA 1658 Residential Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. John Partridge House: Millis: MA 1659 [8] Residential Broad Bay Manor: Virginia Beach: VA c. 1660 ...

  6. 1775–1795 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Glossary of 18th Century Costume Terminology; An Analysis of An Eighteenth Century Woman's Quilted Waistcoat by Sharon Ann Burnston Archived 2010-05-22 at the Wayback Machine; French Fashions 1700 - 1789 from The Eighteenth Century: Its Institutions, Customs, and Costumes, Paul Lecroix, 1876 "Introduction to 18th Century Men and Women's Fashion".

  7. Fop - Wikipedia

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    Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, [1] fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion.

  8. Beau Brummell - Wikipedia

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    George Bryan "Beau" Brummell (7 June 1778 – 30 March 1840) [1] was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion.At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France.

  9. History of Oklahoma - Wikipedia

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    Flag of Oklahoma. The history of Oklahoma refers to the history of the state of Oklahoma and the land that the state now occupies. Areas of Oklahoma east of its panhandle were acquired in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, while the Panhandle was not acquired until the U.S. land acquisitions following the Mexican–American War (1846–1848).