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Definition of Dashing
1. Adjective. Lively and spirited. "A dashing hero"
2. Adjective. Marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners. "A jaunty red hat"
Similar to: Fashionable, Stylish
Derivative terms: Dapperness, Jauntiness, Nattiness, Rakishness, Spruceness
Definition of Dashing
1. a. Bold; spirited; showy.
Definition of Dashing
1. Adjective. Spirited, audacious and full of high spirits. ¹
2. Adjective. Chic, fashionable. ¹
3. Verb. (present participle of dash) ¹
4. Noun. The action of the verb to dash. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Dashing
1. dash [v] - See also: dash
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dashing
Literary usage of Dashing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Down from the rivulets, red with dashing rains, The Ans. to the ... Hut bashing
and dashing I kend na how to tell. The Petition of Br. Water. ..."
2. Two Years Before the Mast: A Personal Narrative by Richard Henry Dana (1911)
"... and was floating^out of the harbor, when two horsemen came dashing down to
the beach at full speed, and tried to find a boat to put off after her; ..."
3. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"dashing means striking—ie showy, ... fellow," a " dashing equipage." To cut a
dash is to get one's self looked at and talked about for a showy or striking ..."
4. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Poems by Wordsworth, Coleridge by Curtis Hidden Page (1910)
"Then marked they, dashing broad and far. The broken billows of the war. And plumed
crests of chieftains brave Floating like foam upon the wave ; But nought ..."
5. Memories of a Musical Career by Clara Kathleen Rogers (1919)
"CHAPTER III dashing YOUNG OFFICERS — ACQUAINTANCES — VANZINI — A FIRST AND LAST
BALL — MILAN CATHEDRAL — ARRIGO BOITO — EXPERIENCES WITH SAN GIOVANNI ..."
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