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foppery|ˈfɒpərɪ|
[f. fop n. and v. + -ery; cf. Ger. fopperei, Du. fopperij, hoaxing.]
†1. Foolishness, imbecility, stupidity, folly. Obs.
1592Greene Disput. 25 He..was fauoured by the foolish sect for his foppery. 1681R. Knox Hist. Ceylon Pref., The Foppery of their Priests Religious Opinions and Practices. 1711E. Ward Vulgus Brit. ii. 136 They're fix'd Enemies to Pop'ry, As well as to Fanatick Fop'ry.
†b. A foolish action, practice, idea, statement, etc.; a folly, an absurdity; concr. something foolishly esteemed or venerated. Obs.
1546Bale Eng. Votaries i. Pref. 7 With hys myters and mastryes, wyth his fannoms and fopperyes. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1684) III. 375 He foresook his former studying of the School Doctors, and other such fopperies. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. vi. xxiii. (1632) 139 Holding it a foppery to write of those, of whose fauour or wrath the Inditers stood in hope or feare. 1718Rowe tr. Lucan Notes 47 Thank God, the Foppery of Pilgrimages is out of Fashion in England. 1758Jortin Erasm. I. 170/1 Colet was out of patience to see those silly fopperies [reliques].
2. The behaviour or manner characteristic of a fop; silly affectation of elegance; coxcombry, dandyism; an instance of this.
1697Potter Antiq. Greece i. xxvi. (1715) 181 Soldiers shall not observe the punctilios of Spruceness and Foppery. 1752Hume Ess. & Treat. (1777) I. 135 Modern politeness..runs often into affectation and foppery. 1808Syd. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 106 The abominable military foppery of our own people. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Detached Th. on Bks., A Shakespeare, or a Milton (unless the first editions), it were mere foppery to trick out in gay apparel. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. vi. (1874) 101 Too intent upon the fopperies of religion.
b. concr. in pl. or collect. sing. Foppish finery.
1711Addison Spect. No. 45 ⁋1 An act..for prohibiting the importation of French Fopperies. a1763Shenstone Progr. Taste i. 116 And, as my satire bursts amain, See, feather'd foppery strew the plain. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge x, His riding-gear, though free from such fopperies as were then in vogue, was..well-chosen. |