fop
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“That’s where we burn lambs,” joked Freddie Fackelmayer, a member who wears his hair in a dramatic swoop of forelocks — call it the Fop Flop — familiar from a thousand Ralph Lauren ads.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2011
In the spirit of the Scud Stud, we dub him the Foul Weather Fop.
From Time Magazine Archive
He rejoiced in the name of Frederick Fop, and seemed possessed of the notion that his dainty person was worthy of the utmost amount of decoration that any one person could bestow upon it.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Reed, Talbot Baines
Into the first line of the second paragraph from Drake, "Of these the most voluminous Fool is the Fop Poet," Boyer inserts a reference to Will's.
From The Present State of Wit (1711) In a Letter to a Friend in the Country by Gay, John
Bounce to Fop, an Heroic Epistle from a Dog at Twitenham to a Dog at Court, by Dr Sw—ft, 6d.
From The Annual Catalogue (1737) Or, A New and Compleat List of All The New Books, New Editions of Books, Pamphlets, &c. by Worrall, J.
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