foppery
English
Etymology
Noun
foppery (countable and uncountable, plural fopperies)
- The dress or actions of a fop.
- 1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types[1]:
- 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.
- Stupidity.
- 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets[2]:
- 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.
- 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems[3]:
- Still, still the secret presses;
The nearing clouds draw down;
The crimson morning flames into
The fopperies of the town.
Translations
dress or actions of a fop
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stupidity — see stupidity