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Definition of Fopperies

Fopperies
Foppery Fop"per*y, n.; pl. Fopperies. [From Fop.] 1. The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly. 2. Folly; foolery. Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house. --Shak.

Meaning of Fopperies from wikipedia

- "Beaux and buggers". Robert B. Heilman, "Some Fops and Some Versions of Foppery" ELH 49.2 (Summer 1982:363–395) offers a long and varied list, p 363f....
- reading with the greatest avidity the last "Pickwick"; the footman (whose fopperies are so inimitably laid bare), the maidservant, the chimney sweep, all...
- Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Retrieved 2008-06-17. "This is the excellent foppery of the world..." — Shakespeare, King Lear, Rescher, Nicholas (2006a). "Holistic...
- wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery". Edward Gibbon reacted differently: "I adore his chivalry". Burke was...
- Higurashi Anime". Anime News Network. Retrieved 2015-07-02. "Ask Sentai #16: Foppery and Whim? Ok". Sentai Filmworks. 2015-08-07. Retrieved 2016-09-07. "Sentai...
- "In all that school", wrote Kingsley in 1851, "there is an element of foppery—even in dress and manner; a fastidious, maundering, die-away effeminacy...
- character with an affectation of delicacy of address and manners amounting to foppery," who nonetheless seized a sword and "rushed on the outlaw with such unexpected...
- existed. There follows a humorous account of their "unconstitutional fopperies", including Dermott's belief that their greatest masonic symbols were...
- Times said of this, "It established Moffatt as our leading exponent of foppery and it remained one of his favourite parts." In 1969 he joined Laurence...
- Lodge. The second edition, in 1764, turned on their "unconstitutional fopperies". The Premier Grand Lodge were already referred to as the "Moderns", and...