Definition of Foppery. Meaning of Foppery. Synonyms of Foppery

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Definition of Foppery

Foppery
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 Foppery 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....
- Worth beyond beauty Amaranth general Immortality Amaranth (****scomb) Foppery, affectation Amaranth (Globe) Immortal love, unchangeable Prince's feather...
- 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...
- 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...
- reading with the greatest avidity the last "Pickwick"; the footman (whose fopperies are so inimitably laid bare), the maidservant, the chimney sweep, all...
- wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie-Antoinette was "pure foppery". Edward Gibbon reacted differently: "I adore his chivalry". Burke was...
- "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...
- 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...
- pitied than censored, a rather too eager-to-please piece of Second Empire foppery", while another GQ article in 1979 described the Dorilton's design as "outlandish"...
- existed. There follows a humorous account of their "unconstitutional fopperies", including Dermott's belief that their greatest masonic symbols were...