Definition of "foppery" [fop•per•y]

• Foolish quality or action. (noun)
• The dress or manner of a fop. (noun)

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• "I can tell you without a doubt … I’d allow myself to be staked out on top of a fire ant pile for three days before I’d have appeared at this sycophantic exercise in foppery, irrelevance and pathetic grandstanding!"
• "The descriptions are "high-falutin" beyond all endurance, and there is particularly noticeable a kind of stylistic foppery, which is always hovering between sublimity and a giggle."
• "From a kind of foppery peculiar to himself, he wears the thick cloak of a common soldier."