Examples of coxcomb

• Coxcomb as I was, there was no doubt in my mind that I could win Olivia. 

• He was a simpering coxcomb of the first water, and the "loudest" dressed man in the state. 

• It has been seen that I never was a coxcomb, not even in my youth. 

• No man, unless he be a downright coxcomb, will ever admit to one woman that another woman has loved him. 

• You are right, my dear Bell, and I am a prating coxcomb. 

• Lonsdale soon finds how well-born officers tyrannize non-commissioned officers and soldiers alike; meanwhile, the officers are depicted as coxcombs, rakes, gamblers, and so forth.

• The galena forms mats of octahedral crystals, the sphalerite is dense and anhedral and the marcasite powdery or displays its coxcomb habit.

• One unsympathetic courtier calls him a vainglorious coxcomb though not to his face.