51³Ô¹Ï

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dashy

[ dash-ee ]

adjective

dashier, dashiest.
  1. showy; stylish; dashing. dash. dashing.


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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of dashy1

First recorded in 1815–25; dash 1 + -y 1
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If the Beijing relay set up the 2008 Summer Games as China's coming-out party on an international stage, London's relay has set up Britain as the community Olympics - not flashy or dashy, not big or spectacular, but warm and well attended.

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Among others, several of the Bonaparte family went by in a splendid barouche; and a heavy carriage, with a showy, tasselled hammer-cloth, and servants in dashy liveries, stopped just at our side, containing 218 Madame Catalani, the celebrated singer.

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Mr. Sarony exhibits a couple of frames containing several “new photo-crayons,†cartes-de-visite vignettes, which are very sketchy and effective, exhibiting those free and “dashy lines†and “hatchings†so characteristic of the “softening off†of artistic crayon drawings.

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Mrs. Jeremy," exclaimed the doctor; "what is there delightful, I want to know, in travelling about with an arrogant old tyrant, his blind daughter, upstart dashy wife, and her two fine-lady nieces?

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It was a visitor, and he came alone—a young fellow of dashy appearance, handsome black hair and whiskers, and very black eyes.

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