foppery

Etymology

fop +‎ -ery

Noun

foppery (countable and uncountable, plural fopperies)

1. The dress or actions of a fop.
   • 1902, G.K. Chesterton, Twelve Types‎:

     And it is by their fopperies and their frivolities that we know that their sinister philosophy is sincere; in their lights and garlands and ribbons we read their indwelling despair.

2. Stupidity.
   • 1783, William Godwin, Four Early Pamphlets‎:

     The energies of his mind led him to despise the fopperies of idolatry; and he found the Christians, in the most unfavourable situation, torn into innumerable parties, by the sectaries of Athanasius, Arius, Eutyches, Nestorius.

   • 1867, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Poems‎:

     Still, still the secret presses; The nearing clouds draw down; The crimson morning flames into The fopperies of the town.