fops

• There had been only two fops, and I was so enthralled already. —  Daisy
• But for such ancient fops, as, with reverence, your father is, what reason can they have to be in love Fred. —  The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 04
• Another thus describes them: 'There we behold woman in her true glory; not a doll to carry silks and jewels; not a puppet to be dandled by fops, an idol of profane adoration, reverenced to-day, discarded to-morrow; admired, but not respected; desired, but not esteemed; ruling by passion, not affection; imparting her weakness, not her constancy, to the sex she should exalt; the source and mirror of vanity. —  Life of Daniel Boone, the Great Western Hunter and Pioneer
• She is permitted to know only the jeunesse dorée_--the fops, the sports, the club-window men, whose antecedents are vouched for by the Social Register She has no way of meeting others. —  The "Goldfish"
• If he is matriculated he laughs at the beasts (those who are not matriculated), and mangles slang: wranglers, fops, and medalists become quite "household words" to him. —  The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 530, January 21, 1832

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