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 Robert Louis Stevenson
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
His fopperies could not conceal the silken strength of him.
From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe
I hate the face, however fair, That carries an affected air; The lisping tone, the shape constrain’d, The study’d look, the passion feign’d, Are fopperies, which only tend To injure what they strive to mend.
From Moores Fables for the Female Sex by Edward Caldwell Moore
It was very smoothly said, and Chandos, of The Pools, being an imposing patrician sort of individual, and free from all fopperies or affectations, Phil met his advances complacently enough.
From Vagabondia 1884 by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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