dapper

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Safra brought in Juan Santa Cruz, a dapper banker turned restaurateur, to oversee the project, which includes a co-working space called Colette.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 9, 2026

The dapper youth in a hat was photographed outside the museum that Sunday and went viral on social media, prompting theories about his identity.

From BBC • Nov. 9, 2025

The broadcast drama series, which also airs on Hulu, centers special agent Trent: a dapper investigator whose instinctual crime-solving skills render him essential to the Georgia Bureau of Investigation.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 2, 2025

The genial, dapper TV host with the gleaming smile and perfectly coiffed hair had hosted two local TV game shows in L.A. before going national with “What’s This Song?”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2025

He looked dapper in a navy suit, his gray-sprinkled hair burnished.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie