Exquisites of their period. Obs.
1804. Within a few years, a smirking race, called in fashion’s vocabulary “Tippies,” re-assumed whiskers, and their pallid cheeks, thus accoutred, exhibited a surprising compound of ghastliness and effeminacy.—The Balance, May 15, p. 153/3 (Hudson, N.Y.). (Italics in the original.)
1805. Some tippee blades stopped lately at the house of a jolly publican [near Wilmington].—Id., Nov. 12, p. 363/3. (Italics in the original.)
