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The puffin seems eminently suitable to be our national bird: a dapper little character who is equally at home on sea or land, given to hedonistic feasting when the seasons allow, but also capable of austere self-denial (they spend their winters out in the North Atlantic).
An equally dapper man of around the same age (Sam Robards) follows him.
Suddenly, this dapper little man of the world in a sharp suit appeared, and we were hooked.
The Labour politician Roy Mason, who has died aged 91, was a small and dapper but pugnacious man, proud of his mining heritage, whose characteristic pout of the lips before delivering a bon mot could set most latterday National Union of Mineworkers gatherings and any Irish nationalists quivering with rage.
The costume department does not disappoint, and the bow tie collection reserved for dapper GP Dr Heston Carter is a thing of beauty.
A dapper , clean-shaven figure, Mr Uppal drew their attention to Canada, where a namesake, Tim Uppal, is a Conservative minister, resplendent in a bushy black beard and turban.
Next week, the dapper Frenchman, who will be 95 in August, will be attended by hundreds of guests at a series of Paris parties to mark what many believe will be the final accolade of his life.
Mr Pack then appeared, silver-haired and dapper in monogrammed shirt, silk tie and crocodile skin shoes.
"You get to America, the land of milk and honey, and you get to choose," says Mr Rodriguez, a dapper figure in a well-cut blazer and aviator sunglasses.Hispanic Catholics cheered the election of Pope Francis, an Argentine.
A semi-schooled 18-year-old, who arrived from Uttar Pradesh six months ago, Mr Ahmed earns 100 rupees a day.The sorted plastic is ground into flakes, and sold to a granule-maker such as Nausheed Khan, a tall and dapper Dharavi-born businessman.
The death and destruction of the past 20 years have finished the job and opened the way for outsiders and youngsters, often with wilder ideas of their own.That was an impossible challenge for the mainstream Chechen leadership the dapper Jokhar Dudayev, the first president, and one of his ill-starred successors, Aslan Maskhadov.
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The adjective "dapper " primarily functions as a descriptive term to characterize someone's appearance. It indicates a sense of style, neatness, and attention to detail in dress. This aligns with Ludwig AI's assessment and numerous examples from the provided data.
Expression frequency: Very common
