foppery

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   ostentatiously fashionable dress, affected manners, or behavior characteristic of a fop

   His jeweled waistcoat was dismissed as theatrical foppery.

2. 2
   noun

   archaic: foolish, absurd, or trivial behavior or an instance of it

   The critic attacked the ceremony as an expensive foppery.

Formed from fop + -ery. Fop first meant a foolish person and later a man excessively concerned with fashionable dress and refined manners. Foppery accordingly developed senses for both a fop's affected display and foolish or trivial conduct more generally.

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