foppery
/ˈfɑpəri/
noun
- Behavior or dress that is overly concerned with fashion, appearance, and elegance in a showy or silly way.
- His constant foppery made him the target of jokes at the office.
- The museum exhibit displayed the foppery of 18th-century European aristocrats.
- She dismissed his expensive new suit as mere foppery, not real style.
- A foolish or vain action or thing, especially one related to fashion or appearance.
- He collected silk scarves and canes, each foppery more extravagant than the last.
- Buying that ridiculous hat was just another foppery he couldn't resist.
- The novel satirizes the fopperies of high society in the 1920s.
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