foppishness

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   excessive concern with fashionable dress, grooming, and elegant manners, especially in a man

   His jeweled cane added a touch of foppishness to an already elaborate outfit.

Formed from foppish + -ness. Foppish derives from fop, an old term for a foolish or vain man that later narrowed to a man ostentatiously devoted to fashion and manners.

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