The Collaborative International Dictionary
Foppery \Fop"per*y\, n.; pl. Fopperies. [From Fop.]
The behavior, dress, or other indication of a fop; coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly.
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Folly; foolery.
Let not the sound of shallow foppery enter My sober house.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of foppery English)
Usage examples of "fopperies".
In those days, all of Whitehall’s windows that faced the outside had been bricked up to keep musket-balls out, and many superstitious fopperies, e.
In the same way, we who oppose slavery, and Established religion, and in particular all of the abominations and fopperies of the Romish faith, must give our support to any man who might prevent James, Duke of York, from long remaining on the throne.
He nearly always wore riding dress in preference to the more fashionable pantaloons and Hessians, tied his cravat in the plainest of styles, would permit only a modicum of starch to stiffen his very moderate shirt points, wholly disdained such fopperies as seals, fobs, or quizzing glasses, and offended his tailor by insisting on having his coats cut so that he could shrug himself into them without the assistance of his valet.