foppery

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

At Government House she was not a frequent visitor, the foppery and toadyism there were revolting to her.

From Australia Revenged by pseud. Boomerang

He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

Pendants known as "lavaleers" hung from necks otherwise innocent of the costly fopperies of Versailles.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me do justice to his own genius, which, malgré all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham

I will come to thee, but Frank, I will not stay to hear your fopperies, dispatch those e're I come.

From Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Francis Beaumont

But the emergencies of the year 1588 summoned-217--vol ii- him to resign the fopperies of an antiquated knight-errantry for serious warfare and the exercise of genuine valor.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin