GOMME, _f._ (familiar), _fashion_; _elegance_, “swelldom.” La haute ----, _the_ “pink” _of fashion_. Etre de la ----, _to be a dandy_, a “masher.” See GOMMEUX. The term formerly signified excellence, and was used specially in reference to wine. Mais non pas d’un pareil trésor, Que cette souveraine gomme. _Parnasse des Muses._ GOMMEUSE, _f._ (familiar), _showily dressed girl or woman_, a “dasher.” GOMMEUX, _adj. and m._ (familiar), _pretty_; _dandy_. C’était elle qui, pour la première fois, recevant un de ses amants astiqué des pieds à la tête, empesé, ciré, frotté, tiré, semblant, en deux mots, trempé dans de la gomme arabique en dissolution, avait dit de lui: un gommeux! Le petit-crevé avait un successeur.--=E. MONTEIL=, _Cornebois_. The different appellations corresponding to various periods are as follows:--Under Louis XIV., “mouchar, muguet, petit-maître, talon-rouge.” After the revolution of 1793, “muscadin.” Under the government of the Directoire from ’95 to ’99, “incroyable, merveilleux.” Then from the Restoration come in succession, “mirliflor, élégant, dandy, lion, fashionable, and gandin.” Under the Third Empire, “cocodès, crevé, petit-crevé, col-cassé.” From 1870 to the present day, “gommeux, luisant, poisseux, boudiné, pschutteux, exhumé, gratiné, faucheur, and finally bécarre.” The English have the terms “swell, gorger, masher,” and the old expression “flasher,” mentioned in the following quotation from the _English Supplementary Glossary_:-- They are reckoned the flashers of the place, yet everybody laughs at them for their airs, affectations, and tonish graces and impertinences.--=MADAME D’ARBLAY=, _Diary_.