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
But the origin of aristocracy was worse than foppery.
From The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Volume III. 1791-1804 by Thomas Paine
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
He also furnished coloured illustrations to the ‘Fiddle-Faddle Fashion-book,’ a whimsical satire on the fopperies and literary absurdities of the period, also out of print.”
From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith
And so would you, if the poor fopperies amid which you live but left you one moment free to think and feel as your own head and heart would lead you.
From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever
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
He objects also to other foreign habits introduced by 'travelled ladies,' and fears that the peace, however much to be desired, may cause the importation of a number of French fopperies.
From The Age of Pope (1700-1744) by John Dennis
