muscadin
Etymology
From French muscadin.
muscadin means dandy, coxcomb Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
Why this word is great
MUSCADIN — [Noun] A dandy or fop, especially a young French royalist sympathizer during the Thermidorian Reaction of the French Revolution. From French muscadin, literally meaning "lozenge containing musk" (a perfume favored by such dandies), from Italian moscardino, a derivative of moscardo ("musk"). Unlike the general "dandy" (which suggests a timeless vanity) or the specific "incroyable" (which denotes a later, more flamboyant Directory-era figure), the muscadin is a political creature armored in lace, his foppery a direct, fragrant provocation. He is the sharp scent of musk cutting through the revolutionary odor of blood and sweat, the calculated swing of a silver-topped cane on a street recently ruled by the pike, the studied insolence of a powdered queue in a square that had seen the guillotine—a delicate, perfumed denial of an entire world turned upside down.