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Definition of Fopperies
1. foppery [n] - See also: foppery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fopperies
Literary usage of Fopperies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Wit and Humour, Selected from the English Poets: With an Illustrative Essay by Leigh Hunt (1890)
"... fopperies OF THE TIME. (Being the Epilogue to Etheridge's " MAN or MODE ; OB,
... fopperies ..."
2. Wit and Humor by Leigh Hunt (1846)
"He left not faction, but of that wai left."—See, in the present volume, the rival
portrait of Buckingham from the hand of Pope. fopperies OF THE TIME. ..."
3. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1827)
"True peace, content, and joy. on her attend ; You, on the contrary, your forces
bend To blear men's eyes • With fopperies, Which fools embrace, ..."
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