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

During the earlier part of his life his dress was sufficiently elegant, without falling into foppery.

From Weird Tales, Vol. II. by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Pendants known as "lavaleers" hung from necks otherwise innocent of the costly fopperies of Versailles.

From The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story by Edward J. (Edward Joseph Harrington) O'Brien

But the emergencies of the year 1588 summoned-217--vol ii- him to resign the fopperies of an antiquated knight-errantry for serious warfare and the exercise of genuine valor.

From Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth by Lucy Aikin

The far-seeing intellect of Lord Verulam heralded the innovation—'Our glorious Bacon led philosophy forth from the jargon of schools and the fopperies of sects.

From A Logic Of Facts Or, Every-day Reasoning by George Jacob Holyoake

He also furnished coloured illustrations to the ‘Fiddle-Faddle Fashion-book,’ a whimsical satire on the fopperies and literary absurdities of the period, also out of print.”

From John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1 by William Powell Frith