aesthete vs dandy

aesthete

noun
  • Someone who cultivates an unusually high sensitivity to beauty, as in art or nature, often in a manner perceived to prioritize beauty over other qualities such as virtue and utility. 

dandy

noun
  • A man very concerned about his physical appearance, refined language, and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of self. 

  • A yawl, or a small after-sail on a yawl. 

  • A dandy roller. 

adj
  • Like a dandy, foppish. 

  • Very good; better than expected but not as good as could be. 

  • Excellent; first-rate. 

How often have the words aesthete and dandy occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )