starched manners
1Morning dress — Not to be confused with mourning dress. Western dress codes Formal wear Formal (including morning dress) Semi formal Informal Smart casual Business casual Casual Active attire …
2Formal — Form al (f[^o]rm al), a. [L. formalis: cf. F. formel.] 1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. [1913 Webster] 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter composing …
3Formal cause — Formal Form al (f[^o]rm al), a. [L. formalis: cf. F. formel.] 1. Belonging to the form, shape, frame, external appearance, or organization of a thing. [1913 Webster] 2. Belonging to the constitution of a thing, as distinguished from the matter… …
4Starchedness — Starch ed*ness (st[aum]rch [e^]d*n[e^]s), n. The quality or state of being starched or starchy[5]; stiffness in manners; formality. Syn: starchiness, starchness. [1913 Webster] …
5Dandy — This article is about the persons. For other uses, see Dandy (disambiguation). Sporty Parisian dandies of the 1830s: a girdle helped one achieve this silhouette. The man on the left wears a frock coat, the man on the right wears a morning coat …
6Troy, New York — Troy   City   City of Troy The Troy waterfront and Hudson River, 2009 …
7Les Mignons — Henri III, then Duke of Anjou, dressed in elegant attire of 1570, including a little bonnet of velvet . Painting by Jean de Court. Les Mignons (from mignon, French for the darlings or the dainty ones ) was a term used by polemicists in the toxic… …
8stiff — stiffish, adj. stiffly, adv. stiffness, n. /stif/, adj., stiffer, stiffest, n., adv., v. adj. 1. rigid or firm; difficult or impossible to bend or flex: a stiff collar. 2. not moving or working easily: The motor was a little stiff from the cold… …
9formal — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. structural; external, superficial, outward; stylized, conventional, ceremonial, ritual[is tic], traditional; solemn, dignified; stuffy, strict, prim; correct, proper. See conformity, fashion,… …
10Beau Brummel — George Bryan Brummel, born in England in 1778, believed in living the high style. As a student at Eton and later at Oxford, he began dressing the part of a fashion plate in high society. He gave up his study of medicine and resigned from the… …