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"ref": "2002, Julian Rathbone, A Very English Agent, London: Little, Brown, page 80",
"text": "His clothes were sombre, clean but not immaculate, pressed, but yesterday perhaps not today. In short, neither slovenly nor dandyish.",
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"Characteristic of or resembling the style of a dandy."
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