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n.

Dandified form of rock 'n' roll in which the performers are more concerned with their clothes than with their music.

"In his spare time, one of President Clinton's bright new White House recruits dresses as an 18th century dandy — blond wig, scarlet lipstick and velvet knee-breeches — and sings songs of upper class angst such as Let Them Eat Rock and Friend of a Friend of the Working Class. Ted Widmer, whose day job is director of speech writing at the National Security Council, plays guitar and sings at night for a 'fop-rock' group, the Upper Crust."

— Hugo Gurdon, "Rocking Clinton aide has dandy sideline", The Daily Telegraph