fop
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“That’s where we burn lambs,” joked Freddie Fackelmayer, a member who wears his hair in a dramatic swoop of forelocks — call it the Fop Flop — familiar from a thousand Ralph Lauren ads.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
In the spirit of the Scud Stud, we dub him the Foul Weather Fop.
From Time Magazine Archive
It will be some time before the Corinnas of The Yellow Book contrive to surpass The Town Fop in outrageous frankness.
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
Hence the only piece that he composed in our county was the epitaph on Fop, a dog belonging to Lady Throckmorton.
From Highways and Byways in Sussex by Griggs, Frederick Landseer Maur
Amphibious thing! that acting either part, The trifling head or the corrupted heart, Fop at the toilet, flatterer at the board, Now trips a lady, and now struts a lord.
From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant
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