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Definition of Coxcamb

Cox"comb` (k?ks"k?m`), n. [A corrupted spelling of cock's comb.] 1. (a) A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock, which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps. (b) The cap itself.

2. The top of the head, or the head itself.

We will belabor you a little better,
And beat a little more care into your coxcombs.
Beau & Fl.

3. A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a fop.

Fond to be seen, she kept a bevy
Of powdered coxcombs at her levee.
Goldsmith.

Some are bewildered in the maze of schools,
And some made coxcombs, nature meant but fools.
Pope.

4. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of different genera, but particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as Cockscomb.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

COXCOMB. Anciently, a fool. Fools, in great families,
wore a cap with bells, on the top of which was a piece of
red cloth, in the shape of a cock's comb. At present,
coxcomb signifies a fop, or vain self-conceited fellow.
- The Devil's Dictionary (Ambrose Bierce)

  • (obsolete) the cap of a court jester, adorned with a red stripe
  • a foolish or conceited person; a dandy
  • the fleshy red pate of a rooster
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia

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