- Dandy
- Fashion-conscious overdressed popinjay for a start
- Vain man
- One whose ambition it is to gain admiration by showy dress; a
coxcomb; an inferior dandy.
- Conceited dandy
- Court jester’s cap
- A strip of red cloth notched like the comb of a cock,
which licensed jesters formerly wore in their caps.
- The cap itself.
- The top of the head, or the head itself
- A vain, showy fellow; a conceited, silly man, fond of
display; a superficial pretender to knowledge or accomplishments; a
fop.
- A name given to several plants of different genera, but
particularly to Celosia cristata, or garden cockscomb. Same as
Cockscomb.