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
Snow-white linen, indeed, constitutes the principal feature in the robber foppery of Spain.
From The Bible in Spain - Vol. 2 [of 2] by George Henry Borrow
He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.
From Time Magazine Archive
From the court it passed into circles of learning, and grave jurists and administrators, poets and scholars, set about the refining of language and literature decked out in all the fopperies of the fashionable craze.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Walter W. Greg
What innumerable fopperies in literature, in politics, in religion, we might thus have escaped, it is not easy to conjecture!
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various
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
And above all, if it can be done without too great annoyance to tailors, amateur and professional, deliver us from braided pelisses, bearskin caps, crimson pantaloons, and all such costly and unserviceable fopperies.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 by Various
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