Dandin, George, one of Molière's comedies, illustrative of the folly a man commits when he marries a woman of higher rank than his own, George being his impersonation of a husband who has patiently to endure all the extravagant whims and fancies of his dame of a wife.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Dandie Dinmont * Dandin, Perrin