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What does foppery mean?

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Noun
  1. The dress or actions of a fop
  2. Stupidity
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A dandified man is always ridiculous, but when he adds to his foppery, effemination, he then becomes contemptible.
So foppery and foolery are tolerated from habit and intimacy.
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.
Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty will be a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty.
The falsity that proceeds from ignorance does not offend me, but the foppery of it.

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