foppery
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All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.
From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017
But behind the foppery lay a serious work ethic and a spirit of experimentation that led him through varying painting styles and on travels overseas.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2012
He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood.
From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
Laying aside, on the one hand, the frankness, the good-natured openness of the Mongols of the North, they have borrowed from their neighbours somewhat of their cunning and foppery.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was that day shown to twelve sets of company, and as often forced to act over again the same fopperies, till I was half dead with weariness and vexation.
From Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World by Thomas M. Balliet
It was very smoothly said, and Chandos, of The Pools, being an imposing patrician sort of individual, and free from all fopperies or affectations, Phil met his advances complacently enough.
From Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Fashions and modes we often see, Made to conceal deformity: Those to whom nature has been kind, Should leave such fopperies behind.
From Aesop, in Rhyme Old Friends in a New Dress by Marmaduke Park
The unities of time and place have always appeared to me fopperies, as far as they require close observance of the French rules.
From Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
