Foppery
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Foppery is a noun meaning The dress or actions of a fop.
Meaning
The dress or actions of a fop.
More Meanings
- Stupidity.
Example Sentences
Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.
And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.
The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius.
This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]
Word Forms
- fopperies
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include foppism, fopling, fashionable, fribble, froofiness, fluffery.
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