foppery

In “King Lear,” the illegitimate son, Edmund, says that blaming bad behavior on planetary influences is “foppery.”

All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.

But the Pilgrims, who regarded personal adornment as a species of idolatry, were dismayed by what they saw as the indigenous penchant for foppery.

If America chooses to ignore this due to naiveté, strategic foppery or bean counting, we will be subjects to those powers that are more fastidious and realistic in their approach.

The victory’s unifying impact was felt nationwide, with Jackson cast as a new kind of hero: one who resonated with the demos—trappers, yeoman, servants, day laborers, and other rough-hewn, Westernizing folk who viewed the East Coast as a bastion of aristocratic foppery.