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Foppery
noun
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The dress or actions of a fop. countable, uncountable
"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."
- 2 Stupidity. countable, uncountable
"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 […]"
Etymology
From fop + -ery.
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