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What does foppery mean?

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Noun
  1. The dress or actions of a fop
  2. Stupidity
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The captive Abbot's features and manners exhibited a whimsical mixture of offended pride, and deranged foppery and bodily terror.
Besides, a man who has no foppery at twenty will be a slatternly, dirty-collar, unbrushed-coat man at forty.
A dandified man is always ridiculous, but when he adds to his foppery, effemination, he then becomes contemptible.
He was a tall, baroquely mustachioed man with a strangely swanlake gait, whose celebrity, odd hats, and denim foppery kept him a focus of street attention in San Francisco's North Beach, his urban habitat.
In this respect the eighteenth century, for all its foppery, was ahead of ours.
In seeking to avoid slovenliness readers often fall into foppery.

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