foppery

All this expensive fashion foppery came at the expense of the poor.

From New York Times ● Nov. 8, 2017

But behind the foppery lay a serious work ethic and a spirit of experimentation that led him through varying painting styles and on travels overseas.

From Seattle Times ● Jun. 13, 2012

He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.

From Time Magazine Archive

There on the worn stones of the Quarter I enlisted the aid of this wilted flower of a human in gathering his associates in foppery together behind a banner of brotherhood.

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole

Fin′icalness, the quality of being finical: foppery; Fin′icking, fussiness and fastidiousness.—adjs.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various

He invented his own fopperies, adapted his own fiction from the medieval, translated his own pleasures from the French.

From Time Magazine Archive

The English pastoral drama had one advantage at least over many other literary fopperies, in that it obeyed the fundamental law of literary progress, which is one with artistic evolution.

From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.

I will come to thee, but Frank, I will not stay to hear your fopperies, dispatch those e're I come.

From Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher by Beaumont, Francis

Of course you know Llewellyn's books—the most delightful things in the market: the sweetest covers, with little gilt apples and things carelessly distributed over luminous grey, and bright red initials, and all these delightful fopperies.

From Certain Personal Matters by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

No draperies or fripperies or fopperies of art here.

From The Secret of Lonesome Cove by Adams, Samuel Hopkins