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Rakishness   Listen
noun
Rakishness  n.  The quality or state of being rakish.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Rakishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... chair-back. There had been several yards of ribbon left over, and there was a hard knot of glossy satin on each of the ink-stands and on the door-knobs; a blue band, passing around the stovepipe, imparted an antique rakishness suggestive of the charioteer; and a number of streamers, suspended from a hook in the ceiling, encouraged a supposition that the employees of the "Herald" contemplated the intricate festivities of May Day. It needed no genius to infer that these garnitures had not ...
— The Gentleman From Indiana • Booth Tarkington

... observe here, as in other parts of his early letters, that sort of display and boast of rakishness which is but too common a folly at this period of life, when the young aspirant to manhood persuades himself that to be profligate is to be manly. Unluckily, this boyish desire of being thought worse than he really ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. I. (of VI.) - With his Letters and Journals. • Thomas Moore



Words linked to "Rakishness" :   jauntiness, swank, stylishness, chichi, modishness, dapperness, chicness



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