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

Milton, who was no doubt a shallow fellow compared with the Reformer of our language, had the same 'fantastic foppery.'

From Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works by Anonymous

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

From Time Magazine Archive

His fopperies could not conceal the silken strength of him.

From Brand Blotters by Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert) Rowe

Rags, relics, witches, ghosts, fiends, crowd your page; Our fathers' mummeries we well-pleased behold, And, proudly conscious of a purer age, Forgive some fopperies in the times of old.

From The Works of Charles Lamb in Four Volumes, Volume 4 by Charles Lamb

Pope was too sickly and too serious to indulge long in such youthful fopperies.

From Alexander Pope English Men of Letters Series by Sir Leslie Stephen

My indignation at Mr. Keats's depreciation of Pope has hardly permitted me do justice to his own genius, which, malgré all the fantastic fopperies of his style, was undoubtedly of great promise.

From My Recollections of Lord Byron by Sir Hubert E. H. (Hubert Edward Henry) Jerningham