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Sentence Examples
Middleton is the dramatist who links the medieval morality plays to Restoration foppery.
He was a tall, baroquely mustachioed man with a strangely swanlake gait, whose celebrity, odd hats, and denim foppery kept him a focus of street attention in San Francisco's North Beach, his urban habitat.
Examples from Classical Literature
At Government House she was not a frequent visitor, the foppery and toadyism there were revolting to her.
In this respect the eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours.
He hated show and foppery, and a weakness in that direction often got reproof.
The falsity that proceeds from ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it.
A dandified man is always ridiculous, but when he adds to his foppery, effemination, he then becomes contemptible.
In seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery.
Theron looked at his interrogator with a frown of disdain for his foppery.
It is the triumph of insignificance, the apotheosis of foppery and folly.
The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.
Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty will be a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty.
Miss Trix is equal to that sort of thing, but it is n't like Tom, for with all his foppery he is a good fellow at heart.
They despised wealth just as other nations despise effeminacy and foppery.
So that, were we to try our best at foppery, we could not now succeed.
So foppery and foolery are tolerated from habit and intimacy.
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.
