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foppery

[ fop-uh-ree ]

/ ˈfɒp ə ri /

noun, plural fop·per·ies.

the clothes, manners, actions, etc., of a fop.

something foppish.

Origin of foppery

First recorded in 1540–50; fop + -ery

Words nearby foppery

footwork, footworn, footy, foozle, fop, foppery, foppish, for, for a change, for a loop, for a song

Example sentences from the Web for fopperies

Its fopperies come down not only as inside passengers, but in the very basket.

She Stoops to Conquer |Oliver Goldsmith
They have obtained more liberty since, and can dispense with these "fopperies."

The Town |Leigh Hunt
The unities of time and place he calls "fopperies," though time and place, he admits, are not to be lightly changed.

Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature |Margaret Ball
The unities of time and place have always appeared to me fopperies, as far as they require close observance of the French rules.

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 |John Gibson Lockhart

George Osborne lying yonder, all his fopperies ended, with a bullet through his heart?

Old Man Savarin and Other Stories |Edward William Thomson

British Dictionary definitions for fopperies

foppery

/ (ˈfɒpərɪ) /

noun plural -peries

the clothes, affectations, obsessions, etc, of or befitting a fop