foppery

Example Sentences

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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

But he is a natural hero of the Soviet Union�a rough-spoken soldier's soldier, who disdained foppery and diplomatic delicacy.

From Time Magazine Archive

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