dandysette n.
1. (also dandisette, dandizette, dandyzette) a female dandy; also attrib.
![]() | Dandies and Dandizettes dressing for the Easter Ball [cartoon title]. | |
![]() | New Monthly Mag. I 409: The city dandy and dandisette, arrayed in the very newest of their septenary fashions. | |
![]() | Dict. of the Turf, the Ring, the Chase, etc. 63: Dandyzette — feminine of the preceding: her characteristics were, a large poked bonnet, short petticoats much flounced, and paint. When she walked she kept the step with her Dandy, as if they had been drilled together in Birdcage-walk. | |
![]() | Oxberry’s Dramatic Biography II 86: Windham’s sweet Phil appears — Mrs Brown’s thrilling dears, / Dandy-zette milliners, come to eclipse. | |
![]() | Daily News 16 Sept. 4/7: The humours of the Dandies and the Dandizettes are shown up [...] in these pleasant pages [OED]. |
2. (US) a lesbian.
![]() | 5000 Adult Sex Words and Phrases 59: dandysette (Sl.) A lesbian; a female Homosexual. | |
![]() | Queens’ Vernacular 70: any gay woman [...] dandysette (rare, hetero sl, ’40s). | |
![]() | Maledicta VI:1+2 (Summer/Winter) 133: Here are some obsolete or nearly obsolete terms which careless lexicographers continue to list as current […] dandysette. |