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1876. Robinson, Whitby Gloss. (E.D.S.). Fandangs … the fanciful adornments in personal attire, trinkets.
Hence Fandangous a. Pompous, showy.
1797. Mrs. A. M. Bennett, Beggar Girl (1813), III. 277. He will yaw a parcel of nonsense about jukes and lords, and them sort of fandangus trumpery, and puts a parcel of gibberish whims into the head of all the women he falls in with.
