Foppery

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  • noun. Foolish quality or action.
  • noun. The dress or manner of a fop.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Foolishness; foolery; foolish vanity; vain show.
  • noun. A foolish or mocking exhibition.
  • noun. Vain ornaments; gewgaws.
  • noun. Affectation of precision in trifles, or fastidious observance of the prevailing fashion; dandyism: as, the foppery of dress or of manners.
  • Foppish; foolish.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
  • noun. Folly; foolery.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. The dress or actions of a fop
  • noun. Stupidity
  • Word Usage
    "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!"
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    coxcombry  folly  foolery