foppery

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Preachers fretted about English-inspired "Foppery, Luxury and Recreation."

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus, with a thousand other little Motions and Formalities, all in the common Place or Road of Foppery, he takes infinite Pains to shew himself to the Pit and Boxes, a most accomplish’d Ass.

From The Works of Aphra Behn Volume V by Summers, Montague

Foppery in speech and in dress and the interlarding of conversation with French phrases found favor among the court followers.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

Foppery may have moved him, vanity perhaps; in any case there can be no comparison between them.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Nobility took snuff; Foppery played with his watch-chain; Hypocrisy looked grave.

From English Satires by Smeaton, William Henry Oliphant