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The club’s artistic director, James Pearson, my next pianist, turns out to be a broad-shouldered man with some Dickensian foppishness and a radically unleashed presence on the piano.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2022

Somewhere outside this room is the real world, where finery and foppishness won’t save these characters from an uprising of the plebs.

From New York Times • Feb. 21, 2022

The staggeringly good, utterly OTT Flamboyant, meanwhile, is a celebration of foppishness.

From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2019

The foppishness of aspects of the Roy Evans era came out in their tendency towards the floppy-on-top public school 'do.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010

During the last few weeks—or months, perhaps—a touch of foppishness had crept into his dress—a fondness for gray silk ties, a flower in his buttonhole, white linen gaiters drawn carefully over his patent boots.

From The Moving Finger by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)