Chappist
nounEtymology From chap + -ist.
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One who practices Chappism.
- But for a moment yesterday, good manners and an upright deportment rose again as the "Chappists", complete with pipes, brogues and gold-topped canes, took a leisurely stroll through the thoroughfares of the capital, indulging in "some languid sauntering and synchronised doffing", as Victor Darkwood, co-founder of The Chap periodical, put it.2003 October 17, Patrick Barkham, “Chaps' assault on banality founders on tide of apathy”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Aug 2021:
- As those middle-aged anarchists, the Chappists, tell us, we should all engage in random acts of common courtesy.2004, Magnus C. Granath, Searching for the Promised Land: Basildon and the Pursuit of Happiness, Bexleyheath, Kent: GoldStar Books, →ISBN, page 97: