dundreary

Etymology

From the name of Lord Dundreary, a character in Tom Taylor's play Our American Cousin (1858).

noun

  1. Any type of fashion, hairstyles etc. associated with the foppish Lord Dundreary in Taylor's Our American Cousin.“The shop windows were filled with Dundreary scarves, and Brother Sam scarves, and there were Dundreary collars and Dundreary shirts, and Dundrearyisms were on every lip.”
  2. A person reminiscent of Lord Dundreary; a fop, a dandy.
  3. Long, bushy sideburns.“All at once, the Emperor began to whistle. He really did purse his lips, the wings of his dundrearies moved a little closer together, and the Emperor whistled a tune, a familiar, if somewhat distorted tune.”