She dressed in the very extreme and front of fashion-the squire himself quite plainly, without the least pretence of Dandyism.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
You chance, now and then, to meet a negro who is doing his best to imitate the manners of a gentleman; but he is sure to be absorbed in the perfection of his boots and gloves, and is altogether pervaded with an uneasy consciousness of his own Dandyism.
"A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas"
Fanny Loviot
An angry flash came into his eyes; the mincing Dandyism gave place to a sharp angular rigidity, and stepping quickly across the intervening space that separated him from his child, he was about to take the note from her hands.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn