foppery

George Washington had a chance to become king and wisely rejected the idea, with all its requisite foppery.

Yet, if one looks closely, under the froth and foppery, some of the charm and perception of the man still shines through.

Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.

They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.

Then follow references to Cæsar's sayings as to his star, and the "common foppery" as to the sun mourning his death a year.

My master was an elderly beau; and I gave myself no care that he had spent his money—the money of the expedition—on foppery.