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
I did not believe this girl could care for me; I must not intrude; I must preserve the foppery of my indifference.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 7 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
The English pastoral drama had one advantage at least over many other literary fopperies, in that it obeyed the fundamental law of literary progress, which is one with artistic evolution.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
Rags, relics, witches, ghosts, fiends, crowd your page; Our fathers' mummeries we well-pleased behold, And, proudly conscious of a purer age, Forgive some fopperies in the times of old.
From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Lamb, Charles
I visited all the famous ones, and it would fill a volume to tell you the fopperies that's said of them.
From Folklore as an Historical Science by Gomme, George Laurence
His fopperies could not conceal the silken strength of him.
From Brand Blotters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
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