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foppery

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fop·per·y  (fp-r)
n. pl. fop·per·ies
1. Foolish quality or action.
2. The dress or manner of a fop.
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There was certainly no harm in his travelling sixteen miles twice over on such an errand; but there was an air of foppery and nonsense in it which she could not approve.
Emma by Austen, Jane View in context
The interval had not entirely been bestowed in holding council with his confederates, for De Bracy had found leisure to decorate his person with all the foppery of the times.
Ivanhoe by Scott, Walter View in context
Robson, the scorner of the female sex, was not above the foppery of stays.
Agnes Grey by Bronte, Anne View in context
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