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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.
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.
Some of the very many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning parrot), fashion-monger, and ninny.
