Eccentricity, defined as taking characteristics such as dress and appearance to extremes, began to be applied generally to human behavior in the 1770s ; similarly, the word dandy first appears in the late 18th century: In the years immediately preceding the American Revolution, the first verse and chorus of " Yankee Doodle " derided the alleged poverty and rough manners of American-born colonists, suggesting that whereas a fine horse and gold-braided clothing ("

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.

Up trains took nearly six hours from Boston Lodge to the Quarry Terminus and each train ran in up to four sections, each hauled by a horse and comprising eight empty slate wagons plus a horse 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.

* Hobby horse, dandy horse or draisienne ( among other names ), a predecessor to the bicycle

This was the world's first balance bicycle and quickly became popular in both the United Kingdom and France, where it was sometimes called a draisine ( German and English ), draisienne ( French ), a vélocipède ( French ), a swiftwalker, a dandy horse ( as it was very popular among dandies ) or a Hobby horse.

The construction of the boneshaker was similar to the dandy horse: wooden wheels with iron tires and a framework of wrought iron.

It is the first reliable claim for a practically used bicycle, basically the first commercially successful two-wheeled, steerable, human-propelled machine commonly called a velocipede, nicknamed hobby-horse or dandy horse.

One, the scooter-like dandy horse or celerifere of the French Comte de Sivrac, dating to 1790, was long cited as the earliest bicycle.

The dandy horse was invented by Baron Karl Drais in Mannheim, Germany, and patented in January 1818.

Keaton's technical crew were unable to obtain a vintage dandy horse, so they built one to match existing drawings and prints.

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

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.

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.

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.

Richard Shuckburgh, a British army surgeon, added words to a popular tune of the time, Lucy Locket ( e. g., “ stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni ”, macaroni being the London slang at the time for a foppish dandy ).

The self-proclaimed adviser to the Yips, a human-sized dandy of a frog called the Frogman, hears Cayke's story and offers to help her find the dishpan.

Using the alias " Geoffrey Fourmyle of Ceres ," Foyle re-emerges as a rich dandy who charms high society with his antics, leading a troupe of freaks called the Four Mile Circus.

His letters were interesting for their sheer volume — over 1, 700 pages — the number of languages Vojnović had used, and some personal peculiarities that led to him being called a dandy as well as bits of apparently homosexual correspondence with Ivo Raić, an actor from the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.

During a January evening, a dandy called Bamatabois heckles her and shoves snow down her dress when she ignores him.

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.

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 ".

The magazine's first cover illustration, a dandy peering at a butterfly through a monocle, was drawn by Rea Irvin, the magazine's first art editor, based on an 1834 caricature of the then Count d ' Orsay which appeared as an illustration in the 11th edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.

); however the dandy roll was invented in 1826 by John Marshall.

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.

" He dressed like a dandy and was meticulous about his appearance and demeanor.

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.

By the time he reached the age of 20, his rising literary fame was already accompanied by a sulphurous reputation fed by his dandy side.

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.

Charles Baudelaire was deeply interested in dandyism, and memorably wrote that a dandy aspirant must have " no profession other than elegance ... no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons ...

The boy had no memory of his parents or his name, so when a pretty Red Cross worker said he was " a dandy boy ," he thought she was naming him " Dondi.

The counterpart to the slave was the dandy, a common character in the afterpiece.

He was usually better at retreating than fighting, and, like the dandy, he preferred partying to serious pursuits.

He started to dress as a dandy, and he was introduced to the Salon of Margaret Power, Countess of Blessington.

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

He felt that his poetry was unsuccessful, however ; he was not able to make his two selves ( whom he oddly described as the " archaic, uncouth, and even barbarous " Olsen and the " hysterically self-conscious dandy " Valentine ) speak with one voice.

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.

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.

Dressing up in a black cloak, black homburg and mascaraed eyes, he invented his first sustained character, " Dr Aaron Azimuth ", agent provocateur, dandy and Dadaist.

He first played an 18th-century French dandy in A Tale of Two Cities.

Six years later his first novel was released, Förvillelser ( Delusions, 1895 ), written from the viewpoint of a young dandy aimlessly idling in the capital, recklessly squandering money and love.

It seems to be connected with the use of the word in that period to mean a dandy or somebody smartly dressed ( hence spiffy, and to spiff up-to improve the appearance of a place or a person ), but nobody seems to have been able to disentangle the threads of which came first, or what influenced what, or where the word originally came from.