Foppery

It is from Vanity to Wisdom-from Foppery to Sobriety and solidity.

John Adams diary 16, 10 January 1771 - 28 [i.e. 27] November 1772 1961

Some Foppery, and folly and Vice, may be discerned in ones self, and Motives, and Methods may be collected to subdue it.

John Adams diary 2, 5 October 1758 - 9 April 1759 1961

Foppery may have moved him, vanity perhaps; in any case there can be no comparison between them.

In a Green Shade A Country Commentary Maurice Hewlett 1892

Folly and Foppery finely drest: For the Character that delivers Precepts of Wisdom is, in some sort, severe upon the Auditor by shewing him one wiser than himself.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

In this Play I gave myself the Part of Sir Novelty, which was thought a good Portrait of the Foppery then in fashion.

An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume I 1889

Nobility took snuff; Foppery played with his watch-chain;

English Satires Various 1885

~ -- Foppery is never cured; it is the bad stamina of the mind, which, like those of the body, are never rectified; once a coxcomb and always a coxcomb.

Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857

Fellows are; but his Foppery is rather pretty and diverting than tiresome and impertinent.

The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704

When Ignorance, for several Ages, had been successfully encouraged and was designedly introduced to make Way for Credulity, the Simplicity of the Gospel and the Doctrine of _Christ_ were turn'd into Gaudy Foppery and vile Superstition.

An Enquiry into an Origin of Honour; and the Usefulness of Christianity in War Bernard Mandeville 1701

Pray Gentlewoman be pleased to wear your mask till we're got out of this Road of Foppery.

Manley: The Lost Lover: Characters Manley 1696