The undress, fanciful frock he wore in common was exchanged for the attire of one of his assumed rank and service, which had been made to fit his person with the nicest care, and with perhaps a Coxcomical attention to the proportions of his really fine person; and in all other things was he speedily equipped for the disguise he chose to affect.
"The Red Rover"
James Fenimore Cooper
These commendations will not, I am persuaded, make you vain and Coxcomical, but only encourage you to go on in the right way.
"Letters to His Son, 1749"
The Earl of Chesterfield