1. Successfully completed or brought to an end; SYN. completed, realized.
2. Well established and beyond contestation; SYN. effected, established.
3. Highly skilled; SYN. complete.

Male figure conspicuous for tasteful fastidiousness, particularly in dress. The famous Regency dandy George (“Beau”) Brummell (1778–1840) helped to give literary currency to the figure of the dandy, particularly in England and France, providing a model and symbol of the triumph of style for the Francophile Oscar Wilde and for 19th-century French writers such as Charles Baudelaire, J K Huysmans, and the extravagantly romantic novelist and critic Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly (1808–1889), biographer of Brummell.

ETYM Old Eng. daper; prob. from Dutch dapper brave, valiant; akin to German tapfer brave, Old High Germ. taphar heavy, weighty, Old Slav. dobru good, Russ. dobrui. Related to Deft.
Marked by smartness in dress and manners; SYN. dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, smart, snappy, spruce.

ETYM Latin elaboratus, p. p. of elaborare to work out; e out + laborare to labor, labor labor. Related to Labor.
Marked by complexity and richness of detail; SYN. intricate, luxuriant.

Neat; tidy; spruce.

1. Perfected or made shiny and smooth.
2. Showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; SYN. refined, svelte, urbane.

Showing regard for others in manners, speech, behavior, etc.
Showing or characterized by correct social usage; marked by an appearance of consideration, tact, deference, or courtesy; marked by a lack of roughness or crudities

Fine looking; smart

Neat or smart in appearance; trim

Marked by elaborately complex detail; SYN. elaboration, intricacy.

ETYM Latin elaboratio: cf. French élaboration.
Developing in intricate and painstaking detail; SYN. working out.

1. A state of arrangement or appearance:; SYN. trimness.
2. Attitude of an aircraft in flight when allowed to take its own orientation.
3. Cutting down to the desired size or shape; SYN. trimming, clipping.