The dandy horse, also called Draisienne or laufmaschine, was the first human means of transport to use only two wheels in tandem and was invented by the German Baron Karl von Drais.

In his review of Ivry's biography for Library Journal Larry Lipkis is persuaded by Ivry's research that, " There seems to be little question that Ravel was an affected, intensely secretive dandy with gay inclinations ," but also expresses the view that Ivry's work is less persuasive in definitively linking Ravel's sexuality to characteristics of his musical oeuvre.

A dandy ( also known as a beau, or gallant ) is a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self.

Animators who worked with Schlesinger also found him conceited and somewhat foppish, wearing too much cologne and dressing like a dandy.

Karl Drais ( April 29, 1785 – December 10, 1851 ) was a German inventor, who invented the Laufmaschine (" running machine "), also later called the velocipede, draisine ( English ) or " draisienne " ( French ), also nicknamed the dandy horse.

The term Regency style is also applied to interior design and decorative arts of the period, typified by elegant furniture and vertically striped wallpaper, and to styles of clothing ; for males, as typified by the dandy Beau Brummell, for women the Empire silhouette.

Shonibare also takes carefully posed photographs and videos recreating famous British paintings or stories from literature but with himself taking centre stage as an alternative, black British dandy, e. g., A Rake's Progress by Hogarth which he translates into Diary of A Victorian Dandy ( 1998 ) or Dorian Gray ( 2001 ) after Wilde's novel The Picture of Dorian Gray.

He also employed a dandy horse which, by the 1830s, would have been out of fashion.

* George Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), English dandy, known as " Beau Brummell ", lived in exile in Calais from 1817 to 1830.

Chief among these were the slave, who often maintained the earlier name Jim Crow, and the dandy, known frequently as Zip Coon.

As the work became more wearing on the horses, a vehicle known as a dandy wagon was introduced, in which the horse could rest on downhill stretches.

Alfred d ' Orsay, known as the comte d ' Orsay ( Count of Orsay ) ( Alfred Guillaume Gabriel ; 4 September 1801 – 4 August 1852 ) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion in the early-to mid-19th century.

He is known for catchphrases such as " baby " and " diaper dandy " ( outstanding freshman player ), as well as enthusiastic and colorful remarks he makes during games, and has authored nine books and appeared in several movies.

He became best known for his role as the " dandy " surgeon, Raymond Shaw in the long-running Australian television soap opera The Young Doctors.

Hughes ' fortune went to Edward Hughes Ball Hughes ( c. 1798-1863 ), her grandson by a previous marriage, who became the dandy and wastrel known as " The Golden Ball ".

International Male is or was a mail-order vendor of men's casual, office-casual and some gallant clothing which are or were at various price levels and which are and were generally geared to the dandy.

`` Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker and you don't have any candy for sale here anyhow ''.

The dandy cultivated skeptical reserve, yet to such extremes that the novelist George Meredith, himself no dandy, once defined " cynicism " as " intellectual dandyism "; nevertheless, the Scarlet Pimpernel is one of the great dandies of literature.

* Lord Henry " Harry " Wotton – an imperious and decadent dandy who is a friend to Basil initially, but later becomes more intrigued with Dorian's beauty.

A watermark is made by impressing a water-coated metal stamp or dandy roll onto the paper during manufacturing.

The dandy roll is a light roller covered by material similar to window screen that is embossed with a pattern.

Instead of using a wire covering for the dandy roll, the shaded watermark is created by areas of relief on the roll's own surface.

He was the naïve butt of practical jokes and amorous scheming ( Gautier ); the prankish but innocent waif ( Banville, Verlaine, Willette ); the narcissistic dreamer clutching at the moon, which could symbolize many things, from spiritual perfection to death ( Giraud, Laforgue, Willette, Dowson ); the frail, neurasthenic, often doom-ridden soul ( Richepin, Beardsley ); the clumsy, though ardent, lover, who wins Columbine's heart, or murders her in frustration ( Margueritte ); the cynical and misogynous dandy, sometimes dressed in black ( Huysmans / Hennique, Laforgue ); the Christ-like victim of the martyrdom that is Art ( Giraud, Willette, Ensor ); the androgynous and unholy creature of corruption ( Richepin, Wedekind ); the madcap master of chaos ( the Hanlon-Lees ); the purveyor of hearty and wholesome fun ( the English pier Pierrots )— and various combinations of these.

" Variety magazine commented that the film has " breakneck action and some dandy dogfights ", but the dialogue is simply laughable.

He is mentioned here as the sort of dandy who is effusive in praise of rhetorical skill and who will be forced to practise more manly pursuits in future ( line 1374 ).

The picaresque story follows its protagonist, Pasqualino ( Giannini ) who, as a dandy and small-time hood in Naples, to save the family honour, is sent to prison for killing a pimp ( and then dissecting the victim and placing the body in suitcases ) who had turned Pasqualino's sister into a prostitute.

In the 1820s, Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy, whose life consists of balls, concerts, parties and nothing more.

He is a would-be dandy, just as vain as his master.

The dandy, for instance, was regarded as an ideal of masculinity in the 19th century, but is considered " effeminate " by modern standards.

" Highsmith's Bruno is a physically repugnant alcoholic ... but in Cook's hands, the film's Bruno became a dandy, a mama's boy who speaks French, and who professes ignorance of women.

The word " fop " is first recorded in 1440, and for several centuries just meant a fool of any kind ; the OED notes first use with the meaning of " one who is foolishly attentive to and vain of his appearance, dress, or manners ; a dandy, an exquisite " in 1672.

" He is a regular victim of the " pie thrower " Noël Godin, who describes Lévy as " a vain, pontificating dandy ".

Some took a more benign view ; Thomas Carlyle in his book Sartor Resartus, wrote that a dandy was no more than " a clothes-wearing man ".

His personality would change as he aged however ; Eribon noted that while he was a " tortured adolescent ", post-1960, he had become " a radiant man, relaxed and cheerful ", even being described by those who worked with him as a dandy.

Very much a 1920s society figure resembling the characters he portrayed in his novels, and a man who might be referred to as a dandy, Arlen invariably impressed everyone with his immaculate manners.

* Alfred Guillaume Gabriel, Count D ' Orsay ( 1801 – 1852 ) was a French amateur artist, dandy, and man of fashion

David Harvey asserts that " Baudelaire would be torn the rest of his life between the stances of flâneur and dandy, a disengaged and cynical voyeur on the one hand, and man of the people who enters into the life of his subjects with passion on the other " ( Paris: Capital of Modernity 14 ).

I amused myself with being a flaneur, a dandy a man of fashion.

Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.

Honoré de Balzac introduced the perfectly worldly and unmoved Henri de Marsay in La fille aux yeux d ' or ( 1835 ), a part of La Comédie Humaine, who fulfills at first the model of a perfect dandy, until an obsessive love-pursuit unravels him in passionate and murderous jealousy.

Charles Baudelaire, in the later, " metaphysical " phase of dandyism defined the dandy as one who elevates æsthetics to a living religion, that the dandy's mere existence reproaches the responsible citizen of the middle class: " Dandyism in certain respects comes close to spirituality and to stoicism " and " These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking ....

Given these connotations, dandyism can be seen as a political protestation against the rise of levelling egalitarian principles, often including nostalgic adherence to feudal or pre-industrial values, such as the ideals of " the perfect gentleman " or " the autonomous aristocrat ", though paradoxically, the dandy required an audience, as Susann Schmid observed in examining the " successfully marketed lives " of Oscar Wilde and Lord Byron, who exemplify the dandy's roles in the public sphere, both as writers and as personae providing sources of gossip and scandal.

* Iestin Evans, an arrogant dandy, son of the mine owner, who courts Angharad.

He interviews charismatic newspaper columnist Waldo Lydecker ( Clifton Webb ), an imperious, decadent dandy, who relates how he met Laura, became her mentor, and used his considerable influence and fame to advance her career.

Rice played Cuff, boss of the bootblacks, and he wins the girl, Rose, away from the black dandy Sambo Johnson, a former bootblack who made money by winning a lottery.

The model dandy in British society was George Bryan " Beau " Brummell ( 1778 – 1840 ), an undergraduate student at Oriel College, Oxford, and an associate of the Prince Regent, who was not from an aristocratic background and whose greatness was " based on nothing at all ," as J. A.

In fact, many who met him initially mistook him for a dandy from the East.