foppery
foppishness

The second edition, in 1764, turned on their "unconstitutional fopperies".

Certainly more foppery was evident in the Keep now.

Wylie laughed, a surprisingly deep and masculine sound, given his foppery.

A roll-up-your-sleeves alternative to the vacant foppery that's taken over the neighborhood?

Besides, it is not posturing and foppery I desire.

Let others ape the latest foppery of the mortals; he would keep to what suited him.

Because that wretched example of foppery held the key to ... to what?

His foppery hides a will of iron and a heart of coal."

An eyeglass, on the other hand, has a savor of downright foppery and affectation.

Foppery in footwear has never been fast.

He pointed to the archaic foppery for Leon's benefit.

They have a sort of foppery with respect to their sword-belts, which are in general very broad and handsomely embroidered.

"I don't say it's the sort of nose one would wear out of mere foppery," he admitted.

"There could be only one name you could wear-what with your foppery and cold-blooded manner."

She still didn't understand that it was more than some stupid kind of play acting, a feminine counterpart of military foppery.

But the uniforms weren't mere foppery.

But since it wasn't, perhaps you'd return some of that foppery, whatever it was, and get yourself some decent riding kit.

And yet your critic, or your besongno, will think these things foppery, and easy, now!

The thing is perfectly harmless in itself, but it marks a sort of foppery in the human character, which degrades it.

He said, "The book's observer comes to the conclusion that laziness is as natural to the Cuban as foppery is common."

The people, his people, are done with court foppery and aristocratic infidelity, finished with comedies full of words they don't understand.

McNulty's pedantic foppery, and the fogged-up lethargy of a hype after dark, irritated him always.

WHY: Vanity, foppery, rebellion, necessity.

Philip Francis wrote to Burke saying that what he wrote of Marie Antoinette was "pure foppery".

Harlis had all the arrogance, all the faux-aristocratic foppery, and a third less sense, than Bunny had had.

We're saying that romanticism has nothing to do with foppishness.

This fellow was rather small and, despite his evident poverty, he seemed to possess a strong degree of foppishness.

Some of the old soldiers around the table were openly grinning at the foppishness of his rig.

Where's that foppishness the world found so revolting?"

The Armigite's foppishness shames the memory of his father.

It first happened in 1969, when Black Sabbath appeared amid the baroque foppishness of psychedelia.

Because foppishness has nothing to do with romance, such velveteen silliness gives romanticism a bum rap.

The Macaroni wig was an extreme fashion in the 1770s and became contemporary slang for foppishness.

Elaine was too clever to confound his dandyism with foppishness or self- advertisement.

Foppishness, for example.

The often-misplaced foppishness bespoke Mr. Martin's need for comfort.

They were dressed fashionably, but simply; with strict neatness and propriety, but without any mannerism or foppishness.

Anglo-Indian society was at once both dazzled by and scornful of his languid foppishness and irreverent tongue".

The facade of foppishness slipped, and the ruler of Zhentil Keep withdrew the handkerchief from his face.

The movie savagely ridicules 18th-century foppishness in a scene at a wig maker's where some of the headdresses trotted out are laugh-out-loud ludicrous.

And as the professionally naughty Lord Darlington, Adam Rothenberg finds an erotic restlessness behind the foppishness.

The revenge of the electric guitar on the synthesizer; the revenge too of biceps and masculine virtue on the foppishness of British pop music.

As to his dress, it was careful to the verge of foppishness, with high collar, black frock-coat, white waistcoat, yellow gloves, patent-leather shoes, and light-colored gaiters.

Immaculately clad, his foppishness adding a final accent to his weak chin and pendulous lips, he negligently patted a slender limb with a perfumed hand.

Philipp Verges offered a nicely understated Dancing Master, choosing to emphasize the character's long, tapering body line more than his tiresome foppishness.

He knew he looked somewhat younger than his twenty-five years, and knew that his age and his foppishness tempted others to either underrate or overrate him.

While his first album played up the foppishness of these musical connections, "Poses," produced by Sarah McLachlan's mentor, Pierre Marchand, broadens and modernizes them.

Daniel Baudendistel's party magician on Saturday had a welcome elegance and sophistication that contrasted with the slight foppishness of Glen Harris's youthful godfather on Friday.

Emerson's lip curled at the sight of this "foppishness"; he refused to wear a hat and usually went about with his sleeves rolled to the elbows and his shirt collar open.

It is aroused by Lucy's beau, Stephen Guest, played by James Weber-Brown with a Hugh Grantish air of charm, sincerity and foppishness.