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

For the ex-butcher of Tortosa was a kind of military dandy, and loved to surround himself with the foppery of the matador and the brigand.

From The Firebrand by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Lamb, Charles

They are full of fripperies, fopperies, and finesses; knowing not, that nature should be the model of art.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II by Melville, Herman

"That East!" he said to himself, looking pityingly at the big, stalwart youth in the elaborate fopperies of fashionable mourning.

From The Second Generation by Phillips, David Graham

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 Aikin, Lucy