foppery
noun
the clothes, manners, actions, etc., of a fop.
fopperies
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pluralof foppery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.
From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
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
My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me to do justice to his own genius, which, malgrè all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise.
From Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 5 With His Letters and Journals by Thomas Moore
