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What does jaunty mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word jaunty? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Airy; showy; finical
  2. (by extension) Characterized by an affected or fantastical manner.
  3. Dapper or stylish.
  4. Ostentatiously self-confident.
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A young soldier, his black tricorn at a jaunty angle, moved to make room for him.
He ran a hand through his unkempt, honey-colored hair, before giving a jaunty little bow.
A dapper man in contrasting winter shades, beige scarf at a jaunty angle, he marches across the nosherie floor to greet me.
Played at a quickstep tempo, the dirge was at once transformed into a jaunty, comic, oompah version of the Scottish anthem.
Within minutes, everyone around the dinner table was wearing a paper hat at a rakishly jaunty angle and looking expectantly in my direction.
Why does my hair, which is short on top and usually stands up in a jaunty sort of manner at home, go flat whenever I go to London?

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