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.
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Foppery
Synonyms for "foppery" (6 found)
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Translations
4 translations across 4 languages.
Czech
1 entries- šviháctví noun (dress or actions of a fop)
Finnish
1 entries- keikarointi noun (dress or actions of a fop)
French
1 entries- m'as-tu-vu noun (dress or actions of a fop)
Russian
1 entries- пижо́нство noun (dress or actions of a fop)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
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 […]
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.
Source: wiktionary
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