1894 Brewer’s / E / Exquisite
One sought out; a coxcomb, a dandy, one who thinks himself superlatively well dressed, and of most unexceptionable deportment.
“Exquisites are out of place in the pulpit; they should be set up in a tailor’s window.”—Spurgeon: Lectures to my Students. (Lecture viii.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.