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Fashion plate

noun

A man who is much concerned with his dress and appearance. Synonyms: beau, clotheshorse, dandy, dude, fop, gallant, sheik, swell.

A plate illustrating the latest fashion in dress.

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"Fashion plate" Quotes from Famous Books

... a Jerusalem fashion plate. It puts us two thousand six hundred years back, and sets us down in an ancient city. The procession of men and women is moving up and down the gay streets. It is the height of the fashionable season. The sensible men and women move with so much modesty ...

— The Wedding Ring - A Series of Discourses for Husbands and Wives and Those - Contemplating Matrimony • T. De Witt Talmage

Words linked to "Fashion plate" : Beau Brummell, coxcomb, macaroni, George Bryan Brummell, cockscomb, man, adult male, plate, Brummell