Beau Brummel

Beau Brummel

A very fashionable man. The name refers to an actual person, George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, who was considered a tastemaker in England's Regency period. That guy's a real Beau Brummel, so I definitely trust his opinion on what I should wear.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

Beau Brummel

A male fashion plate. George Bryan Brummel, nicknamed “Beau,” was one of the best-known figures of Regency England of the late 18th to early 19th century. As unofficial fashion advisor to the Prince Regent, later King George IV, Brummel was the arbiter of taste, style, and etiquette; he popularized trousers (instead of knee breeches) with matching coats, as well as cravats that were the forerunners of neckties. The epithet Beau Brummel was applied to any man who was fastidious about his clothing, even if he wasn't a trendsetter.
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Endangered Phrases by Steven D. Price
See also:
  • beau
  • a/the man about town
  • man about town
  • man-about-town
  • vogue
  • the new black
  • beau-nasty
  • uncool
  • be on the way in
  • be on the way out/in
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Beau Brummel outran the rest of the field and finished seven lengths ahead of Rising Sun which came in second, another 10 lengths ahead of third-placed Blue Bayou.
6th race: 1 Beau Brummel (Al Montasir, A Smith, Ali Hassan); 2 Rising Sun (Al Nasseriyeh, A Smith, Adrie De Vries); 3 Blue Bayou (Al Nasseriyeh, A Smith, T Cain); 4 Kentuky Wildcat (Shaikh Rashid bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Khalifa, A Smith, Darryll Holland).
THE London Welsh's answer to Beau Brummel, John Lloyd Jones, was spotted gadding about at the premiere of the new Cate Blanchett film, Charlotte Gray.
Beau Brummel Poults has been performing with huge consistency on the US Tour, highlighted by that second place to Henrik Stenson in the Players Championship, and he brought that form home with him to run third in Paris two weekends ago.
It is understood that Poulter's request for a sponsor's invitation to the Dutch event came too late as all the spots had been filled, so the Beau Brummel of the links will instead be flying his sticks to New Jersey where the prize money for The Barclays is a massive EUR7m.
Poulter wants his golf rather than his Beau Brummel outfits to start speaking for him, has finished in the top ten on his two latest outings, in France and at Loch Lomond, and it's easy to forget how well he played in the Masters for 13th place.
Dougherty took Poulter's measure in the PGA Championship (20th to Poults' missed cut), the US Open (seventh to 36th) and Munich (26th to another missed cut) and it looks as if Poulter is having problems living up to all the hype which follows this Beau Brummel of golf around the globe.
Quinney has been ultraconsistent, but I am not totally convinced about him and take England's Beau Brummel of the links to continue a good run in the States that has seen this bright spark into the world's top 30.
The Beau Brummel of European golf has upped his game to a new level with a top-ten finish at the USPGA and second place to Woods at The Grove, as well as posting his first win for two years in Madrid in pre-Ryder Cup week.
They believe Beau Brummel Poulter's late burst of form with ninth place in the USPGA Championship and 13th in the Bridgestone Invitational, both against the world's finest, will prove decisive.
it's all looking a bit desperate for the European Tour's Beau Brummel, Ian Poulter, in his quest to make the Masters line-up in two weeks' time.
The Beau Brummel of British golf strained ligaments at the top of his thigh on a new training machine which set his preparation back a few days and he could be a bit rusty.
Legendary dandy Beau Brummel, a close friend of the Prince Regent, decreed that men of elegance should wear waisted black coats and white cravats with pantaloons.
3rd dam high-class performer, half-sister to Beau Brummel (Gr1-calibre), Dapper Dan (2nd in Kentucky Derby, Preakness S), and Pas de Deux (Gr3 winner in France).
Richard Hannon looks to have found a winning chance for Sharp Shuffle in the Beau Brummel Claiming Stakes(3.00).