Adjective:

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foppery's Usage Examples:

Parliament Close, a change he attributed to the silliness of fashion ("foppery") when he wrote his memoir of life in Edinburgh in the 1820s.

Sir Novelty Fashion, a coxcomb that loves to be the first in all foppery Elder Worthy, a sober gentleman of a fair estate in love with Hillaria.

"In all that school", wrote Kingsley in 1851, "there is an element of foppery—even in dress and manner; a fastidious, maundering, die-away effeminacy.

fop Sir Novelty Fashion ("a coxcomb that loves to be the first in all foppery") delighted the audiences.

wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery".

depicted as one of the region"s most glaring displays of wealth-driven foppery.

of the most striking passages in the real play have been omitted by the foppery and ignorance of the prompt-book critics.

"there is an element of foppery—even in dress and manner; a fastidious, maundering, die-away effeminacy, which is mistaken for purity and refinement".

his autobiography 45 years later, "was thought a good portrait of the foppery then in fashion".

"This is the excellent foppery of the world.

Times said of this, "It established Moffatt as our leading exponent of foppery and it remained one of his favourite parts.

character with an affectation of delicacy of address and manners amounting to foppery.