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dapper

adjective
 
 
/ˈdæp.ər/ US  //

Definition

describes a man who is dressed in a fashionable and tidy way: Hercule Poirot is the dapper detective of the Agatha Christie novels.Smart and elegantAttractive
(Definition of dapper adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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