[f. EXQUISITE sb. + -ISM.] The quality or character of an exquisite; dandyism, foppishness.
1831. Lytton, Godolphin, viii. The … prim, hedge-clipped indolence of … national exquisitism.
1843. Fraser’s Mag., XXVIII. 133. No well-trained husband will ever dare to ask a friend to … take pot-luck with him in these days of universal exquisitism.
