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
In "the splendid foppery of a well-turned period" Gibbon thus pictures the dons of Magdalen in 1752: "Their deep and dull potations excused the brisk intemperance of youth."
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
From the court it passed into circles of learning, and grave jurists and administrators, poets and scholars, set about the refining of language and literature decked out in all the fopperies of the fashionable craze.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
Yet, like Watteau's pictures it is of more than merely historic interest, for it is far more than simply a reminder of the fopperies of a vanished time.
From Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacy by Edward Chauncey Baldwin
