0 a man who is too proud of his appearance
Some of the very many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning parrot), fashion-monger, and ninny.
One unsympathetic courtier calls him a vainglorious coxcomb though not to his face.
The galena forms mats of octahedral crystals, the sphalerite is dense and anhedral and the marcasite powdery or displays its coxcomb habit.
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.
No man, unless he be a downright coxcomb, will ever admit to one woman that another woman has loved him.
It has been seen that I never was a coxcomb, not even in my youth.
He was a simpering coxcomb of the first water, and the "loudest" dressed man in the state.
