It is linked to being glamorous, smart, aman-about-townor to being slim and so able to wear certain kinds of clothes.
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He ceaselessly promoted himself as dandy andman-about-town.
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It concerns the fortunes of four characters: a youngman-about-town, his wife, his lower-class mistress, and her husband.
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