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dapper
/ˈdæpə(ɹ)/
adj 3noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
alert, commercial, pretty, typical, wiry, young
VERB + DAPPER
bowed, looking
DAPPER + NOUN
ferret-like, haircut, man
PREP.
out, with
Definitions
adj
1
Neat, trim.
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.
2
Stylishly dressed, neatly dressed, spiffy.
“It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his face.
Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
3
Quick; little and active.
noun
1
A plimsoll.
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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 numbe
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“It is too bad that monsieur has been troubled,” said Tarzan, turning to the newspaper man. “I bid monsieur good evening,” and he bowed the dapper young man out of the room, and closed the door in his
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Going down the street, you would meet a typical commercial traveller, dapper and alert.
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Who's this dapper young man?
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He was a dapper man with a mustache that curled neatly at each tip.
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Holmes had sent on a wire, so that Lestrade, as wiry, as dapper, and as ferret-like as ever, was waiting for us at the station.
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