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noun British Informal.
- a stylishly dressed, fashionable person, especially one who is or wants to be considered a member of the upper class.
noun
- British slang a rich, well-dressed, or upper-class person, esp a man
lower-class British slang for “stylish dresser, member of the smart set,” 1851, said to be probably an alteration of tuft, formerly an Oxford University term for a nobleman or gentleman-commoner (1755), in reference to the gold ornamental tassel worn on the caps of undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge whose fathers were peers with votes in the House of Lords.