beauish

beauish

(ˈbəʊɪʃ)
adj
vain and showy
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Like many other blacks, John Jackson, who ran away in New York in 1794, was fond of clothes, often dressing in "rather beauish" fashion, and wearing his "wool turn'd up and a comb behind".