fop
noun
a man who is excessively vain and concerned about his dress, appearance, and manners.
Example Sentences
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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
He modelled his foppishness on Lord Byron's, soon began promoting South American mining shares, lost his investors a fortune, and – to recoup his position – published his first novel at the age of 21.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 17, 2013
His foppishness arose from an over-elegance of costume rather than any violence of color.
From The President A novel by Alfred Henry Lewis
