fop

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Such was the end of a GREAT CONSPIRACY CHAPTER VIII CAESAR At eight-and-twenty, Caesar, who not thirty years later was to die master of Rome, was chiefly known as a fop and a spendthrift.

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  1. noun A man who is preoccupied with and often vain about his clothes and manners; a dandy.

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  • He dressed a la Robespierre and practised other follies, although the consummate old fop was a man of literary attainments, remarkable for his politeness and courtly manners, in fact, he was invited everywhere. —  The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope v. I
  • Here they are strongly attached to plainness of dress, as well as to that of language; insomuch that though some part of it may be ungrammatical, yet should any person who was born and brought up here, attempt to speak more correctly, he would be looked upon as a fop or an innovator. —  Letters from an American Farmer
  • It is during one of these outings that he feels it necessary to defend his wife's good name from the nefarious insults of a court fop, and that defense begins both the novel and Wilrowan's education into the nature of the Goblin Jewels upon which the fate of the dozens, possibly hundreds, of small human Kingdoms rests. —  F ;SF; - vol 101 issue 06 - December 2001
  • He appeared a fop, always well supplied with money, but with apparently little interest--except in pretty faces. —  066 - The Munitions Master
  • For his correspondence he spent thirty-seven and one-half cents on a quire of “fancy writing paper.”83 In short counsellor Travis was becoming a bit of a fop, and clearly loving it. —  Three Roads to Alamo
 

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  1. Middle English, fool; probably akin to Middle English fob, trickster, cheat; see fob2.

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  1. Also fob: see fob and fub; from Dutch foppen, cheat, mock, prate, = Low German foppen, German dial. (Prussian) fuppen (Brem. Dict.), mock, jeer, etc., = German foppen, mock, jeer, banter (regarded as slang). Hence fop.
  2. from Middle English fop, foppe, a fool; cf. Dutch fopper, a wag, German fopper, a jeerer, scoffer, mocker; from fop, v.
 

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