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
And as for buying frills and fallals, there were two daughters to provide for and a son who was growing into the stratum of foppery.
From In a Little Town by Rupert Hughes
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
And above all, if it can be done without too great annoyance to tailors, amateur and professional, deliver us from braided pelisses, bearskin caps, crimson pantaloons, and all such costly and unserviceable fopperies.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
What innumerable fopperies in literature, in politics, in religion, we might thus have escaped, it is not easy to conjecture!
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
