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
There were possibilities for the exercise of his especial gifts in a vice-president of the Corporation who was also Vanity Valiant, the decorative idler of social fopperies and sumptuous clothes.
From The Valiants of Virginia by Hallie Erminie Rives
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
My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me do justice to his own genius, which, malgré all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise.
From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham
Pope was too sickly and too serious to indulge long in such youthful fopperies.
From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Sir Leslie Stephen
