| 单词 | foppish |
| 例句 | Men began to wear their handkerchiefs in their sleeves and some foppish lieutenants carried swagger sticks. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “So this is the rascal we’d been talking about,” the principal, a tall, wiry man, foppishly dressed in a black pin-striped suit, said to my mother as we entered. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z A of being a foppish man with a crooked shoulder, dressed in extravagant clothes, he became a Cause. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Conversely, the foppish image of the wine connoisseur as suggested in the old sitcom “Frasier” is simply a device for banishing a deeply seated fear of the unknown and the intellectual. In Wine and Critics, Populists Find an Easy Target 2018-07-16T04:00:00Z Wayne was the almost foppish disguise, a lighter version of Mr. Conroy’s speaking voice. ‘Batman: The Killing Joke’ Finds Kevin Conroy Back Under the (Animated) Cowl 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z The plentiful mime is both broad and exact, capable of showing — without sound — how Harlequin’s foppish rival sings poorly. Review: ‘Harlequinade’ Has Charming Baubles, but Why Do It? 2018-06-05T04:00:00Z It was a surprisingly meteoric rise for James McAvoy, who seemed to go from foppish love interest to action hero to superhero in what felt like weeks. James McAvoy: five best moments 2016-05-20T04:00:00Z The real BeBe, a sleepy-eyed charmer dressed in a foppish suit, came on stage at the end of Thursday’s performance to bask in the glory of the moment and to acknowledge the company. Review: Music trumps storytelling in 'Born for This,' the BeBe and CeCe Winans story 2017-07-21T04:00:00Z In that thrilling swashbuckler, the foppish, slightly dim Sir Percy Blakeney is secretly the intrepid Scarlet Pimpernel, whose guerrilla actions help save the innocent from the guillotine during the French Revolution’s Reign of Terror. Review | Johnston McCulley dreamed up Zorro 100 years ago. The masked avenger is still a thrill. 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z Any ventresca is going to be amazing ventresca, though I particularly like the slim tins that come from José Gourmet, packaged in boxes decorated with a sassy illustration of a foppish, mustachioed tuna. Holiday Gift Guide for Foodies: From Murderous Mermaid Salt to Lamps Made Out of Croissants 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z As for Mr. Serra, while he often enjoys playing the foppish provocateur in his interviews, his film is sober, meticulous and entirely convincing in its depiction of period and mortality. Review: ‘The Death of Louis XIV’ Has a Riveting Performance at Its Heart 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Ditto for Mr. Hayes, who played the flighty, foppish Jack McFarland on the hit series and who is now on Broadway in “Promises, Promises.” Cultural Studies: A Celebrity Comes Out of the Closet? So What? 2010-05-21T22:00:00Z He had a twinkle in his eye, a wonderful sense of humour, he was marvellously foppish in a theatrical way. 2010-02-06T14:24:00Z Oscar Wilde’s immense talent, inimitably foppish style and personal tribulations as a gay man make him a natural subject for the artistic duo known as McDermott & McGough. For This Artist Duo, a Third Act: A Shrine to Oscar Wilde 2017-09-06T04:00:00Z Freddie Fox’s foppish, strawberry blond teenage monarch, Louis, conveys some sense of the ridiculous as he and Buckingham compare fashion notes. | 'The Three Musketeers': ?The Three Musketeers,? With Christoph Waltz - Review 2011-10-21T23:17:20Z But if the foppish singer is being set up for Hollywood heroics, Nolan has a funny way of showing it. Five things we learned from the first trailer for Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z The daemon’s criteria for moon trippers are harsh: “We do not admit desk-bound humans into these ranks, nor the fat, nor the foppish,” he explains. Elon Musk and the Failure of Our Imagination in Space 2018-06-14T04:00:00Z Matthew the foppish tax-collector sits at a table counting his money or gambling with rakish male friends and colleagues. Prince of darkness 2010-04-09T23:06:00Z To judge from the descriptions in “Godine at Fifty,” some of these early efforts verged on the foppish — fine printing for the sake of fine printing. Looking Back on 50 Years of Making Beautiful Books 2022-03-17T04:00:00Z Onstage, the band dressed in the sort of foppish outfits favored by several other white acts of the mid-1960s: knee-high socks, short ties, floppy collars. Dino Danelli, Whose Drums Drove the Rascals, Is Dead at 78 2022-12-17T05:00:00Z Voisin, who has the mother-of-pearl skin that Balzac writes about, is perfectly cast as the naïve young poet who generates pity when he is foppish and humiliated at the theater. "Lost Illusions" is a sumptuous period piece on the allure of fame, followers and fake news 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z Usually too old, too foppish, too bookish, too bohemian, or the wrong sex or nationality, classic crime-busters likewise tend to look all wrong. Bestselling writers know that image counts 2013-05-16T16:19:29Z Flip back a few pages in the book, and Richards appears a little more foppish. ‘Keith Richards: A Life in Pictures’ review 2016-01-28T05:00:00Z The Who embody that classic British pop cult paradox: foppish violence. Five decades of the Observer Magazine 2011-07-30T23:05:00Z Noble men, sullied by femininity, were foppish, wore perfume and sumptuous, bright and frivolous clothes. How white supremacist hatred drives acts of violence against powerful women 2016-12-06T05:00:00Z Hamilton is a scrappy self-made man, confident of his own cleverness, and disdained by the political élites for his vulgarity: “ ,” is how Jefferson, foppish and scheming, disparages him. Why Donald Trump and Jeb Bush should see “Hamilton” 2015-09-25T04:00:00Z Nearby a half-length painting of Saint Sebastian reimagines its subject as an almost foppish youth with auburn hair and a single arrow piercing his smooth torso. For the Medici, the Last Great Picture Show 2021-06-24T04:00:00Z Much here, though, is staunch and by the book: The French court is foppish; the English military is brash and bold under their young ruler's anxious command. Myth and mirth take the stage at Oregon Shakespeare fest 2012-07-19T21:29:02Z The foppish white guys he works for and with listen intently, make a few clueless responses. This Juneteenth, "Atlanta" will give you all the insights you need on how America co-opts a holiday 2021-06-18T04:00:00Z Indeed, there is a strong fraternal resemblance between Cumberbatch and D'Arcy: the narrowed eyes, foppish hair, taut smile and pink, triangular face. James D'Arcy: 'I delivered my first line and Anthony Hopkins burst out laughing' 2013-02-01T07:00:09Z This highlander with a taste for French finery is, in fact, one of those charismatic rogues we simply can’t resist, like that foppish Caribbean pirate, Captain Jack Sparrow, or the cocky galactic mercenary Han Solo. Review | Robert Louis Stevenson’s ‘Kidnapped’ is not just an adventure tale, it’s a timely novel about politics and dissent 2021-01-20T05:00:00Z And there’s fun to be had with these performances, including Hugh Grant playing a foppishly pretentious academic with impeccable condescension. When Is a Comedy Special Also a Corporate Synergy Message? 2020-12-30T05:00:00Z He also suggested that fellow servants wear slippers at dawn so as not to “disturb the family before they are up” and dress neatly without looking “foppish, or extravagant.” ‘The Jemima Code’ Spotlights Forgotten Black Cooks 2015-09-03T04:00:00Z Ted Peckham, a foppish Midwestern arriviste in his early twenties, spotted this opening in the market soon after he arrived in New York. Ted Peckham's 'Gentlemen For Rent' 2014-07-01T04:00:00Z Hailing from this period, a hunting treatise known as the “Livre de la Chasse” shows young aristocrats stalking wolves and taking instruction from a foppish trainer. Art Review: Medieval Style Files: Tailored Artistry 2011-05-26T22:25:13Z The van Dyck self-portrait, though a great painting, is of a foppish, effeminate figure, with rouge-red lips and long tapered fingers adorned with a little pinkie ring. Hemingway the Museumgoer at the Met 2011-09-15T22:52:42Z Hoult and Cage sell the toxic odd-couple dynamic well, but a sturdier story is required to fully support their performances, especially Cage’s operatic Dracula, who delights in terrorizing his foppish familiar. Review: A self-help-fueled vampire movie, 'Renfield' is goofy, if flimsy, fun 2023-04-13T04:00:00Z Albee caricatures the foppishly professorial Fam as sniveling, ingratiating and insincere. Commentary: The case of a mysterious Edward Albee play that has resurfaced in L.A. 2022-12-07T05:00:00Z The finery he breaks out when Edgar returns at the end to challenge Edmund to a duel is so ludicrously foppish I wondered if a young Liberace might have been the design inspiration. Review: In striving to be modern, the Wallis makes a mockery of 'King Lear' 2022-05-16T04:00:00Z They’ve also made a celebrity of his foppish head of hair, a cross between a traditional mullet and ’80’s hair band singer. Battle to be Longhorns QB the talk of Texas this spring 2022-04-23T04:00:00Z Chelsea have an aristocratic air about them right now, unbeaten in all 11 matches under Thomas Tuchel, while the modern Leeds are foppish aesthetes hell bent on nothing more dangerous than art for art’s sake. Leeds United v Chelsea: Premier League – live! 2021-03-13T05:00:00Z For many, Hugh Grant will be remembered most as the lovably foppish romantic lead who charmed the world in Notting Hill, Love, Actually and Four Weddings and a Funeral. The Undoing: Five reasons HBO whodunnit got people talking 2020-12-02T05:00:00Z And while he acknowledged the potential foppish touch of the pocket hankie, he called the one he picked “pedestrian,” perhaps to lessen the effect. Roger Stone’s Costume Drama 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z Atkins perfectly catches Spenser’s breezy voice and Parker’s knack for creating vivid characters — notably a foppish, condescending British detective who is also hunting the paintings. Authors ably carry on legacies of late crime-fiction writers Tony Hillerman, Robert B. Parker 2018-04-22T04:00:00Z Making this pronouncement is officious Lord Nooth, the governor of the area's spiffy bronze age town, who's played by Hiddleston like a foppish, money-hungry Roman provincial functionary with a truly eccentric accent. The gently amusing "Early Man" showcases Nick Park's offbeat humor 2018-02-15T05:00:00Z Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance. Review: Newlywed sleuths can’t get a break in ‘Busman’s Honeymoon’ 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Next to the five-star incumbent, he seemed soft, even foppish, and therefore not up to the job. Sixty years and nothing to show: The slow decay of American politics since Eisenhower, Stevenson 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z As the showboating Lewis, Dominique Scott pumps up the energy and plays standing up with flair and high skill, but his strutting take on the man becomes too foppishly cartoonish. At Westchester Broadway, Suede Shoes and Prison Blues 2016-08-05T04:00:00Z But among a certain class of old-fashioned conservatives, such foppish trivialities are as transgressive as a heroin addiction. A charm offensive: the repellent magnetism of Justin Trudeau 2015-12-18T05:00:00Z But with all the neckerchiefs, showy silks and foppish fabrics on display, it was clear that the original dandy’s been on many designers’ minds. A Guide to Next Spring’s Menswear 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z Point being, if you’re an adult who primarily knows the Aquaman character from Super Friends, you probably consider Arthur Curry to be a foppish figure of mockery and incompetence. Jason Momoa's Aquaman Is Appropriately 'Outrageous!' 2015-02-20T05:00:00Z And Brian d’Arcy James, as a foppish and peevish King George, sings three songs to his former American colonies like a jilted lover - “You’ll be back,” he croons - and will have you crying with laughter. Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s ‘Hamilton’ is a rollicking show 2015-02-17T05:00:00Z A name like Nigel Farage, were it to appear in a historical novel, might indicate a tendency to foppish indolence and swagger. Nigel Farage Interview: 'I Want to Be Minister for Europe' This was an act of affection, and a triumphant assertion of the relationship—something more for those foppish shopwalkers to put in their pipes and smoke. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z It should be too, of a washable texture, not silk, nor netted, nor hanging down, nor of any foppish production, but a simple, white tie, without embroidery. The Gentlemen's Book of Etiquette and Manual of Politeness Being a Complete Guide for a Gentleman's Conduct in all his Relations Towards Society 2012-03-30T02:00:17.867Z In an apish manner; with servile imitation; foppishly. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Like a beau; characteristic of a beau; foppish; fine. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z But the young man who had brought the water, and who had something of the air of a gentleman, foppishly and effeminately dressed, implored her to sit awhile. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He felt that his foppish clothes were conspicuous. Comrade Yetta 2012-02-15T03:00:24.213Z Gone was the emerald ring, the foppish cane; the languid air, too, had disappeared, leaving him brisk and businesslike. The Black Moth A Romance of the XVIIIth Century 2012-01-31T03:00:13.827Z It was a clean-limbed, generous lad, that looked mighty handsome in the bravery of his pink satin coat, and without one foppish affectation from his top-knot to his shoe-buckles. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z In the evening Isaac was not at home, but some of his wife's relations came to visit her, along with a couple of foppish young men, who looked in from a party in the neighbourhood. The Danes Sketched by Themselves. Vol. III (of 3) A Series of Popular Stories by the Best Danish Authors 2011-10-25T02:00:26.667Z He was moving across the open lighted space, some fifteen paces from the box; a handsome boy, foppishly dressed, moving with the affected indifference of a very young dandy. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Jobs 1.0 was known for his bow tie and other foppish affectations. Technology's Great Reinventor: Steve Jobs (1955-2011) 2011-10-05T20:20:00Z A grown man, blubbering like he was, and that pink thrift-store oxford with the elbows patched, and his foppish hair—we looked very gay, and a little pathetic. Justin Torres: “Reverting to a Wild State.” 2011-07-25T04:00:00Z His dilettantish manner was gone for good, as was also his foppish beard. Molly Brown of Kentucky 2011-07-16T02:00:18.603Z He was neatly, almost foppishly dressed, and had a self-sufficient air not altogether pleasant. The White Squaw 2011-07-05T02:00:26.437Z One or two of the elder ladies took chairs, but the greater part walked, the gentlemen with hats under their arms and canes dangling from their wrists, the more foppish with muffs. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z A foppish young fortune-hunter from the south, ventured sometime ago to pay his respects to the beautiful Miss Dickenson, one of the first fortunes in the state. The Life of Benjamin Franklin With Many Choice Anecdotes and admirable sayings of this great man never before published by any of his biographers 2011-06-15T02:00:17.903Z "Dismount, monsieur, lest I lay hands on thee and thou diest a horrible death," exclaimed Redward in a sepulchral voice, relying on the cowardice of the foppish Frenchman to gain his end. The Winning of the Golden Spurs 2011-05-17T02:00:18.050Z Their foppishly dressed male companions frequently are in effect far from anything like such youth; and in a number of cases are much more likely to remind you of Bacchus than of Apollo. Turns about Town 2011-05-13T02:00:09.213Z There, after many foppish grimaces, and much foolish adulation, he delivered the missive into her hands; adding to it suggestions and explanations which Ethel scarce comprehended, and we cannot chronicle. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z "Is he a small, foppish man, full of monstrous airs and graces, and--and rather underbred?" Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z He was elegantly, though not foppishly dressed, wearing upon his hands a pair of stout dogskin gloves. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z I suppose he thought him too foppish to be entirely dependent on the credit of others, and perhaps judged his success in business, on that account, rather doubtful. The Shepherd's Calendar Volume I (of II) 2011-03-05T03:00:28.153Z His carefully curled hair and fashionable apparel gave him a somewhat foppish appearance, but he was really devoid of affectation. Vineta The Phantom City 2011-01-21T03:00:10.377Z One who could play at joust with foppish Norman gallants, or lilt his heel to the sound of music, would be preferred before me. The Last of the Vikings 2011-05-09T02:00:04.200Z Even the parish clerk is said to be "spruce and foppish in his dress." The Evolution of Fashion 2011-01-06T03:00:44.710Z These veterans suffered in appearance by contrast with the foppish cavaliers who landed from the fleet, nearly two thousand in number, brave in their glistening armor and confident from their numerical superiority. Vasco Nu?ez de Balboa 2011-01-02T03:00:18.200Z Don Bobadil was very tall, very thin, with very long black hair, very small black eyes; very yellow complexion, very good teeth, and was dressed very foppishly. The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 2010-12-28T03:00:18.560Z But not praise from princes or bows from beauties could induce him to fritter away his splendid energies in senseless dinky-dinks at Moscow or foppish balls at Petersburg. Comrade Kropotkin 2010-12-26T03:00:20.093Z It's almost enough to make you wish for those cheesy, faintly foppish TV chefs of yesteryear. Dude Food Extremes: Male Chef Guy Fieri, Cook to Bang 2010-05-11T17:00:00Z From Seneca to S. Jerome, the foppish procurator of the great lady was a dangerous and suspected person,520 and not always without good cause. Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius The foppish depreciation of his own literary productions with which Congreve met the compliments of Voltaire, Mr. Thackeray rather commended than otherwise, but not for a reason which would have pleased the great man. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 4, July, 1851 He shook his foppish, curly head disapprovingly, adjusted the heavy tassels of his uniform. Majesty A Novel Beatrice was there at the top of the slide, and beside her stood a tall, foppish youth with a little blond mustache. In And Out He had no illusions as to the source of this foppish prompting. The Gray Mask My heart was too heavy for me to linger over foppish details of dress. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois Common-sense will show you that the gentlemen who had leisure to hunt in these times did not wear their most foppish garments, that the tunics were plain, the boots high, the cloaks of strong material. English Costume He paced the floor again with a foppish air of pride. Ewing\\'s Lady This was the foppish youth whom Aurora had designated as “my brother.” Dorothy on a House Boat In dress, air, and look, he was thoroughly gentlemanlike; a little foppish, perhaps, in the arrangement of his hair, and somewhat too much display in the jewelled ornaments that studded his neckcloth. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life The mysteries and scenery of the cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them. The Voice of Science in Nineteenth-Century Literature Representative Prose and Verse But in compliance with custom, his hair was dressed with the fashionable love-locks, plaited and adorned with ribands, and falling foppishly over either ear. Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion The jays were everywhere, foppish, flippant, the perfection of privileged rudeness. John March, Southerner The young lawyers were evidently getting too foppish. Old and New London Volume I He is careful in his attire, but not foppish. Threads of Grey and Gold Demming saw the speaker for an instant,—an erect little figure in a foppish gray suit, with a “cat’s eye” gleaming from his blue cravat. Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 “It is very well that I did not prolong my absence another day,” said Hansford, “or else I might have found my place in your heart supplied by this foppish young fribble.” Hansford: A Tale of Bacon's Rebellion What can be more magnificent than his enumeration of his companions—“Belton, so pert and so pimply—Tourville, so fair and so foppish!” etc. Hazlitt on English Literature An Introduction to the Appreciation of Literature She is said to have been very beautiful, and the subtle touch of not in the least fatuous or foppish "devotion" is most agreeable. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Everybody seems to think I can't take care of myself with this foppish molly and his fancy swordsmanship. Frigid Fracas The haughty Austrian noble prided himself in dressing as he pleased, and looked with contempt upon the studied attitudes and foppish attire of the French. Maria Antoinette Makers of History Apart from this, Rip's name and how they had deigned to associate that foppish hound with "Rip," remained a mystery. The Land of Look Behind Sir Charles was narrow-faced, about fifty, with a dark beard turning grey; his companion was under thirty, a fair-haired, rather foppishly dressed young fellow, in a fashionable suit and a light fancy vest. The Count's Chauffeur Vandermere’s face was dark as a thundercloud when his eyes fell upon the young man—carefully, almost foppishly dressed, standing upon the hearthrug in front of the open fire. The Moving Finger With a gesture so easy as almost to be slow motion, he tossed it into the face of the foppish officer. Frigid Fracas For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) The slim, pale, shabby and yet somehow elegant young man, with his monocle, so useless, so foppish, dangling on its black ribbon, pleased, on the whole, M. Croza's fastidious taste. Mystery at Geneva An Improbable Tale of Singular Happenings He was dressed as foppishly as usual, and certainly betrayed no evidence that he was a “crook.” The Count's Chauffeur He turned and stared after Mamise and noted the way she went, with the foppish stranger carrying the heavy baggage. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards Would-be followers of Mill fancied themselves to be logical when they were only hopelessly unsympathetic and unimaginative; and would-be followers of some other writers can be effeminate and foppish without being subtle or graceful. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Though not foppish, he was scrupulous to a degree about his dress. Personal Recollections of a Cavalryman With Custer's Michigan Cavalry Brigade in the Civil War The French have attained to a sort of foppish magnificence in art; in Holland, selfishness is the ruling passion, and in England vanity is united with selfishness. Six Centuries of Painting It is a beefy, commonplace countenance, heavy, dull, and vacant, rendered trivial and conceited by foppish mustaches curled up beneath the nostrils. Great Men and Famous Women, Vol. 7 A Series of Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Lives of More Than 200 of the Most Prominent Personages in History The following copious extract is curious on many accounts; and I do heartily wish that foppish and tasteless collectors would give it a very serious perusal. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance But it’s a foppish thing for anybody to wear way up here in the country.” The Tale of Jolly Robin One was a very dandy-like young gentleman, very foppishly habited, who seemed to skip through existence upon twinkling heels. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama As he quitted the pleasaunce he countered Mistress Tiffany, and saw at a distance, standing by the laurels, a foppish, many-colored, portly personage negligently twirling a long staff. The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel Many of them have ceased to shave their head, and are rather proud of their hair, which they wear foppishly long in front. India and the Indians For the most part they were either slovenly or foppish. A Book About Lawyers Well, Polly," she resumed, "art still bent on thy foppish lover, lass? The Panchronicon He was a rather foppish young man who cultivated a mustache that the girls called 46 “darling,” and affected what he fondly believed to be an English accent. Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour He was vain and foppish in his dress, expended great sums in the adornment of his person, decorating his robes and vestments, and even his shoes, with gold and precious stones. Pyrrhus Makers of History He looked a foppish Londoner rather than what he was—an honest country gentleman who had not journeyed to the capital for some six years, and then only to see a great physician. Studies in love and in terror By these enactments, foppish modes of dressing the hair was discountenanced or forbidden, not less than the use of gaudy clothes and bright arms. A Book About Lawyers He wanted to see the boy who had left the office with the man "well-dressed, rowdyish, foppish." Make or Break or, The Rich Man's Daughter But in the dying light he looked up, and in the fierce unrelenting face, made the more sinister by its foppish furniture, he read his doom. Stingaree So there’s good sound English law, and none of your foppish outlandishries in Latin,” finished the Baron, vastly delighted at being able to display the little learning that he had. The Dragon of Wantley His Tale Harry Garland, the idle, foppish youth, became a ruined spendthrift. The Printer Boy. Or How Benjamin Franklin Made His Mark. An Example for Youth. Judges were by no means unanimous with regard to the adoption of wigs, some of them obstinately refusing to disfigure themselves with false tresses, and others displaying a foppish delight in the new decoration. A Book About Lawyers He from the flippant world retired, And in a barn himself admired; And, like an ancient sage, concealed The follies foppish life revealed. Fables of John Gay (Somewhat Altered) He is not at all foppish in appearance. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 His dress was foppish; in fact, he was overdressed, yet his garments were worn so easily they appeared to be a necessary part of him. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete Mackintosh insists upon this intrinsic charm of virtue in the language which struck Mill as simply foppish affectation. The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) James Mill He was expensively dressed to begin with, a little foppish in appearance even, and it was known that his people were very wealthy. Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In There advanced from a better quarter of the town a florid, foppishly dressed gentleman of middle age who walked with a pompous gait. Blackbeard: Buccaneer There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain. Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune He admitted an eye; but objected again to dress, as being somewhat foppish, 'and indeed perhaps rather flash.' The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete He was repelled by the man’s foppish socks with the yellow stripes which were made more conspicuous by the fact that his trousers were too high. The Goose Man He seemed ten years younger, wore his hair foppishly curled, his moustache well waxed, and twisted his figure about in quite a Parisian fashion. Bouvard and Pécuchet A Tragi-comic Novel of Bourgeois Life The coasting skippers, most of whom wore hard hats, as if they did not want to be confounded with those foppish yacht captains, patrolled their quarter-decks and spat disdainfully over their rails. Blow The Man Down A Romance Of The Coast - 1916 We protest against those foppish airs and affectations by which Mr. Whistler impresses on us his contempt of public opinion. The Gentle Art of Making Enemies His dress was so distinctly late in style as to seem almost foppish; but there was nothing of the exquisite in his erect and athletic form, or in his piercing eye. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Don't be extravagant or foppish in your dress, or borrow or lend, either clothing or money. The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy It was probably a month after we began our intimacy with this “government boarding-house” that our number was increased by a gentleman of cultivated manners and foppish costume. Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver A man sat awaiting them in the cart, curled, powdered, dressed; and perfumed with foppish elegance, and his every motion made with a dainty sense of distinction. The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette I can see you clearly, sir, in Charles Surface, or any other part where a foppish insolence is the essential. Danger! and Other Stories For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with his fashions, not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American He was rather foppish in his dress; generally affecting a suit of grey cloth with showy metal buttons on it, and a broad blue bonnet. Auld Licht Idylls In truth, I thought him too foppishly arrayed for the woods, for there were fine ruffles at wrist and knee, and beneath his leathern doublet peeped the edges of a satin waistcoat, canary-colored. The Rose of Old St. Louis "Would you like a white vest pattern, or perhaps you would prefer velvet?" queried a foppish little fellow. Three People He had grown much taller since I had seen him last, his face was more intellectual and altogether improved, and his dress was elegantly, though not foppishly, fashionable. Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author His foppish manner impressed me very disagreeably, and, in no pleasant frame of mind, I stalked along by his side listening to the senseless gossip of the court. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV Which is certainly a most foppish and absurd way of Proceeding, and merits nothing but Scandal, Derision, nay Hell itself. A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. He was somewhat foppish, too, in his attire, riding on horseback in white leather tights and high boots. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis "Can't you see Percy Falconer?" asked Mollie mischievously, referring to a certain foppish lad, who seemed to have a great fondness for the Little Captain. The Outdoor Girls in a Winter Camp Glorious Days on Skates and Ice Boats Quite in contrast to these boys was Percy Falconer, a rather foppish lad, who greatly admired Betty—as who did not? The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley A rather low, dark fellow, dressed in the height of the fashion, yet somewhat flashily withal; not too foppish, he was evidently a young gallant of the better class. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV But the learning of these august umbilicarii, for all its pretensions, is precisely the sterile, foppish sort one looks for in second-rate college professors. A Book of Prefaces Willis was at that time a foppish, slender young man, with a profusion of curly, light hair, and was always dressed in the height of fashion. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis What in dress is termed foppish, would be appropriate as applied to his oratory. Irish Wit and Humor Anecdote Biography of Swift, Curran, O'Leary and O'Connell "It is only the idle, foppish men about town she has no use for." The Swindler and Other Stories An effeminate-looking young man, foppishly dressed, followed the servant into the room, and made it impossible for Florence to deny herself, as she wished to do. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World "Mr. Storms, I believe?" remarked the foppish stranger, lifting his hat. The President A novel My curls, I mind, tumbled forward thicker than those foppish French perukes. Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade Anything that could be labeled foppish was looked upon with contempt. Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie The man, physically speaking, was a marvel; but there was an air of foppish elegance in his movements, and a silky kind of beauty, like that of a leopard. Trifles for the Christmas Holidays Captain Don Alonzo Melendez, with a handsome person, a swaggering air, and a costume more foppish than military, looked more like a majo of Seville than a soldier and a gentleman. The Actress in High Life An Episode in Winter Quarters The morning following the receipt of Mr. Bayard's message, a foppish, slender young gentleman accosted Richard. The President A novel Had I not known him, I should have seen in the scrupulous part in his hair a suggestion of the foppish. The Soldier of the Valley He was of medium height, and was decidedly foppish in his manner, and with his elaborate neck-ties and perfumed curls, he was, in his own estimation at least, quite irresistible. Miss Dexie A Romance of the Provinces Many a colored farmer boy or mechanic has been spoiled to make a foppish gambler or loafer, a swaggering pedagogue or a cranky homiletician. Black and White Land, Labor, and Politics in the South Cap'n Sproul hated cigarettes; and he hated slim, pale young men who dressed foppishly, classing all such under the general term "dude." The Skipper and the Skipped Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul On a certain Friday he was seen to be fasting by a very foppish barrister, who thought a great deal of himself. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent For the first time the delicate garments, the luxurious toilet articles packed in his bag, seemed foppish, unnecessary, things for a woman. The Gay Cockade In fact the waxwings are inclined to be lazy, except when they are nesting; they are the most deliberate creatures one can find, but very foppish and neat in their dress. Dickey Downy The Autobiography of a Bird The razor never touches his face, but his brown beard is always neatly trimmed, for the young Commandant-General is particular in regard to his personal appearance in a manly way, though in no respect foppish. Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front She disappeared from view behind the portière, and reappeared, but only for a moment, talking to a foppish old man with a white moustache. Hugo A Fantasia on Modern Themes Behind the slight, foppish figure, the eye of his mind saw suddenly—not the sunlight and colour of Jaipur, but a stretch of grey-green sea, tawny cliffs, and sandy shore ... Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The effect was almost foppish, but the fire in the snapping eyes contradicted any suggestion of effeminacy. A Daughter of the Dons A Story of New Mexico Today Instead, a slender, stealthy man in the uniform of a General rose from behind a tapestry topped table, revealing, as he did, a slight stoop in his back, perhaps a trifle foppish. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 2, May, 1915 April-September, 1915 It sounds conceited and foppish, I know," pursued the young gentleman; "but you force me to it in self-defense. The Baronet's Bride Howat could see the dark, satirical face shadowed by the elaborate wig, the rigid figure in precise, foppish dress. The Three Black Pennys A Novel He flashed a direct look at Roy; the first since their encounter; fluttered a foppish hand—the little finger lifted to display a square uncut emerald—and went his way.... Far to Seek A Romance of England and India The foppish man looked at his watch, and declared they would come in the course of five or ten minutes. The Soldier Boy; or, Tom Somers in the Army A Story of the Great Rebellion He was bald, and sensitive about it; he always had been a trifle foppish. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 It was the same young woman in the not too foppish garb of a cowboy. Somewhere in Red Gap Herodotus found among the Thracians that the barbarians could be exceedingly foppish after their fashion. Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before He loved to mingle with the gay and frivolous; he affected foppish attire, and prided himself on his exceptional skill in dancing. The Tale of Terror A Study of the Gothic Romance Very precise and foppish in his imperial tastes was this monarch. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. II The foppish Malignon thought the project rather stupid, still he condescended to take some interest in it, and promised to bring a comic singer with whom he was acquainted. A Love Episode He was foppish and trifling, and affected religion though at heart a disbeliever. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 This could not possibly be taking place in her life, this fantastic scene, this table set with lights and food at the end of a dark, deserted old room opposite this grimacing, foppish stranger.... The Fortieth Door A few fine ladies in cities will fear to spoil their silk dresses, as a few foppish gentlemen now fear for their broadcloth. Women and the Alphabet A Series of Essays The barber himself, an unwashed, greasy, but foppishly dressed youth of three and twenty, is busy clearing up; there is really nothing to be cleared away, but he is perspiring with his exertions. The Schoolmaster When the foppish youth Malignon came he seated himself astride a rustic chair. A Love Episode Tall, sinewy, well clad for the place and day, even more foppish than Banion in boot and glove, he would have passed well among the damsels of any courthouse day. The Covered Wagon He was so different from the exquisite, foppish elegance of the man she was usually seen with. Evelyn Innes Applied to an oration which is full of bombast and grandiloquence; to a foppish fellow; to an apartment gayly adorned, &c. A Collection of College Words and Customs "You have regained your health, well, thank God," said the scripture teacher, Father Nikolay, a young priest in a foppish cinnamon-coloured cassock and trousers outside his boots. The Schoolmaster At the last moment Van Slyke waved a foppish hand at her, and smirked adieux. The Air Trust The story is familiar of the two foppish young men who were said to have met at a noted hotel or on change, when one accosted the other by the question, "Who did you marry?" True Woman, The A Series of Discourses He was with his apparitor and satellite, Mr. Wheeler, a foppish little man, who seemed pleased at being in confidential conversation with his great chief. Evelyn Innes Look for the extremely short upper lip, for an excess of jewelry, a tendency to over-dress and extreme foppish methods of arranging the hair. Analyzing Character A new student sought his acquaintance the very first week of the term,—that rather foppish young man who got off the cars at Hillsborough the day of their first coming. Darrel of the Blessed Isles Plain to see, beneath this man's foppish exterior and affected cynicism, dwelt powerful purposes and keen intelligence. The Air Trust At another time his foppish dress might have moved her to smiles, or his feebleness and vapid oaths to pity. The Castle Inn And ah! see yonder young cannoneer half-way between these two balconies and the statue beyond; that foppish boy with his hair in a hundred curls and his eyes wild with wayward ardor! Kincaid's Battery Yet there was nothing effeminate or foppish about his appearance. From out the Vasty Deep He was, in addition, foppish in his dress, and on account of his money, position, and tailor, felt the country boys of the class a decided drawback to his social status. Russell H. Conwell He was elaborately well-groomed, almost foppish in attire, and wore the obvious stamp of worldly success, the air of one accustomed to giving orders and seeing them obeyed before his eyes. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth The cultivation of manner—though in excess it is foppish and foolish—is highly necessary in a person who has occasion to negociate with others in matters of business. Self help; with illustrations of conduct and perseverance In real life we have heard of young solicitors, of foppish solicitors, of short solicitors; but on the stage they are always very thin and very old. Stage-Land And after that the world grew into a young man and became foppish. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow The others were no less ragged and unkempt, even the foppish Will Scarlet being so badly run down at the heel that the court ladies would hardly have had speech with him. Robin Hood Perhaps - it seems a foppish thing to say, but upon my soul I don't mean it in that light - she may have fallen in love with me, as I have fallen in love with her.' The Battle of Life He was elegantly and even foppishly dressed, and once safely landed in England he was evidently ready to forget the horrors of the Revolution in the delights of English life. The Scarlet Pimpernel He was a slim fellow of Rasta's build, very foppish and precise in his dress, with a smooth oval face like a girl's, and rather fine straight black eyebrows. Greenmantle For long he hesitated to assume the famous periwig; for a public man should travel gravely with the fashions not foppishly before, nor dowdily behind, the central movement of his age. Familiar Studies of Men and Books He had evidently been in his bed when the alarm had broken out, for he wore a foppish embroidered night-shirt, and his bare feet projected from his trousers. The Return of Sherlock Holmes He looked at the grey, carefully curled hair, yellow white visage, and slim, somewhat foppish figure. The Innocence of Father Brown The voice was that of the foppish, cowardly rascal of De Berquin's band. An Enemy to the King He was a slim, foppish fellow, and he looked more puzzled than angry. Greenmantle In the Governor, the same physical characteristics make a rather decadent and foppish impression--as of an old stock run to seed. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 But Harry Garland, the idle, foppish youth, who had his own way, and lived for pleasure, became a ruined spendthrift. From Boyhood to Manhood Life of Benjamin Franklin There was a sort of foppish weakness in his face. Ruggles of Red Gap "You have a prejudice against the sex," put in the foppish fellow. An Enemy to the King This was the kind of man she had dreamed of, and she had accepted in his stead the first frivolous, foppish youth whom chance had presented to her, under a borrowed name. The Golden Calf "What foppish obstacles are these!" exclaims on a sudden Dr. Johnson. Life of Johnson, Volume 1 1709-1765 He was rather foppish in his dress; generally affecting a suit of gray cloth with showy metal buttons on it, and a broad blue bonnet. Auld Licht Idyls The sights and scenery of the cave had the same dignity that belongs to all natural objects, and which shames the fine things to which we foppishly compare them. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 01, November, 1857 A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics He was proud, luxurious, foppish; but he was honest and kindly enough, and did many a generous thing by men who had been long in his employ. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography He was dressed a little too foppishly for the elder man's liking, and had the air of being over-careful of his own person. The Golden Calf The fellow was almost foppish;—could anybody who wore such good clothes have also good motives and good principles? Under the Skylights One day, out visiting, Christophe met a certain virtuoso—a foppish pianist whom he had slaughtered. Jean-Christophe, Volume I To his surprise he learned that the foppish, quiet-mannered clerk had been dabbling in the market. The Web of Life They were fine but somewhat faded garments, modish and even foppish, and, so far as I could distinguish any peculiarity, military in appearance, and evidently belonged to a person of some quality. The Yeoman Adventurer Thus is economy evolved, not as a foppish fad but as due obedience to the polite but imperious decrees of Nature. My Tropic Isle His bearing was not that of an ascetic, nor even of a person of moderate means, but foppish all over. The Home and the World He was sentimental and dry, naïve and foppish: his labored verses affected a cavalier carelessness. Jean-Christophe, Volume I His scrupulous dress, in the fashion of the foppish clerk, gave an air of distinction to the circle on the steps. The Web of Life The ungrateful girl, however, resents Emanuella's disapproval of her foppish lover, and resolves to be revenged upon her benefactress. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood The sides of the victim heaved and quivered even as they slowly disappeared and the end of that once foppish tail twitched sadly as it hung limply from the jaws of the gorged snake. My Tropic Isle It was a young man foppishly attired, who was smiling graciously upon him. The Store Boy Ardmore had never been considered a truly bad fellow, though he was foppish, conceited and wholly unable to understand why anything that he wanted should be denied him. Dave Darrin's Third Year at Annapolis Leaders of the Second Class Midshipmen Don't tell our foppish friend below, or he'll rend our ears with his howls. Facing the World This narrative is enough to disgust Lady Speck with her foppish admirer and to make her sensible of the merits of Mr. Lovegrove. The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood The doubles of people who are naturally foppish on earth will be foppish in Utopia, and people who have no natural taste on earth will have inartistic equivalents. A Modern Utopia It seemed unbearable that a foppish noble whose only claims to respect were a moldy castle and a worm-eaten patent of nobility should everywhere take precedence over men of means and brains. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Crowds part easier before a pretty, smiling, fashionably dressed girl than before a foppish young man who affects the French mode. Out of the Primitive She ran a cool, amused eye over his long, well-proportioned figure, taking in the butter-nut coloured trousers, the foppish waistcoat, the high-collared blue coat, and the handsome brown-thatched head that topped the whole creation. Viola Gwyn They even looked kindly upon his foibles, his foppish attire, his fondness for the turf, and his frivolous gayety, which shone undaunted when the national gloom was blackest. Ten Englishmen of the Nineteenth Century “You mean when a man ’s so foppish that he will have them made tight enough to display the goodness of his thighs,” rejoined Gibbs, who, being dry, was enjoying the plight of the rest. Janice Meredith Whereas, my Alfred's adoring platitudes would disgust me with the sunset, with the world, and with myself, for permitting him to haunt my presence and hang upon my smile—foppish barnacle that he is! At Last There was courage in the foppish substance, and he would clearly have rejoiced to try his chance in a passage-at-arms. If I Were King Their immediate view was a snowy-white tablecloth with a shining centre dish of foppish little cutlets, each with a wisp of ornamental paper, and a surrounding bank of mashed potatoes. A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus In appearance he was slender and foppish; he affected a pronounced waist-line in his coats, his eyes were large and dark and brilliant, his mouth was sensual. The Auction Block Like all lazy fellows who live upon their wives or children, he had foppish tastes. The Fortune of the Rougons Good-natured, foppish, and idle, he felt quite happy and in his element thus to be made chief organiser of the tragic farce, about to be enacted on the parquet floor of the gaming saloon. I Will Repay The latter was a foppish young man about town, who tried to be friendly with Betty; but she would have none of him. The Outdoor Girls at Rainbow Lake Or, the stirring cruise of the motor boat Gem I wish for a handsome dress, and yet one which shall in no way be foppish, but shall be suitable to my station. Won By the Sword : a tale of the Thirty Years' War And it must be admitted that those mere foppish, inane nothings did produce a seeming of difference. The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel He wore a flashy brown-colored frock-coat with the collar laid very far back, a foppish white vest exposing his shirt-bosom nearly down to the waistbands of his pants, which were of gray stripes. Manuel Pereira Who shall render faithfully a true account of the magnetism which poured forth from this remarkable man as he spoke: this well-dressed, foppish apostle of the greatest love that man has ever known. I Will Repay The Duke of Hamilton avoided the quarrel as much as possible, according to the foppish rules of honour in practice. The Journal to Stella His colleague—young, fresh-looking, light-haired, and jovial—was somewhat foppishly attired; and his white hands were encased in handsome fur gloves. Monsieur Lecoq The dandified coachman with Bergami whiskers, red vest, and foppish manners, was replaced by a sinister-looking individual, whose very appearance was enough to scare any rogue. File No. 113 Any dandyish or foppish quality that he might have seemed to have disappeared at once, and Harry saw only the soldier. The Guns of Bull Run A Story of the Civil War's Eve Had I travelled from Blois, and done what I deemed the most honourable deed of my life, to be laughed at for my pains by a foppish young jackanapes of his Eminence's guards? The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Better that than keep the foppish thing as a witness of your folly. East Lynne My foppish friend," spoke up The Senator, "the reputation of Grizzley Bob says so. Down the Mother Lode Upon near approach he immediately dismounted and advanced toward us, bowing in a most foppish manner, while his attendant followed him on foot with an enormous violin, which he immediately handed to him. In the Heart of Africa One of the ring, a clerk with a petty salary, a base creature, spends more on carriages, horses, and harness than a foppish and reckless young member of the nouveaux-riches would spend in France. The Conquest of New France A chronicle of the colonial wars As I stood up, booted and ready to descend, there came a gentle tap at my door, and, in answer to my "Enter," there stood before me a very dainty and foppish figure. The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes His gravity, and the preciseness of his diction now, sorted most oddly with his foppish airs. The Lion's Skin Patty's honest gaze encountered the appraising glint in the coot grey eyes of the foppish scape-grace before her. Down the Mother Lode He was fashionably dressed and foppish, with his hair parted in the middle, well combed and pomaded, and wore a number of rings on his well-scrubbed fingers and a gold chain on his waistcoat. Crime and Punishment "There isn't one I don't despise for his sickening, foppish, womanish airs." Tales of Trail and Town Even the foppish fripperies of his riding-dress and silver trappings seemed as much the natural expression of conquering youth as the invincible morning sunshine. Susy, a story of the Plains He was well, even foppishly, dressed for the period, and appeared to be familiarly known to the loungers in the passage as a man of some social popularity. The Crusade of the Excelsior “What foppish obstacles are these!” exclaims on a sudden Dr. Johnson. Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson Upon a near approach, he immediately dismounted, and advanced towards us, bowing in a most foppish manner, while his attendant followed him on foot with an enormous violin, which he immediately handed to him. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs That foppish gentleman no longer showed the dejection of the day before, his dark eyes were bright and full of confidence. The Coming Conquest of England It was of a kind to advertise his trade, and ludicrously in contrast with the sober garb of Hagthorpe and the almost foppish daintiness of Jeremy Pitt. Captain Blood A dapper little foppish gentleman in white silk trousers, with a white cap on his head, was walking beside my mother in the garden. The Wife, and other stories For shame! leave off such foppish lamentations, and study to relieve those whose distresses are real.” Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson What of young Randolph Churchill, who, despite his halting speech, foppish mien and rather coarse fibre of mind, was yet the greatest Parliamentarian of his day? The Works of Max Beerbohm The second, considerably younger, was dressed rather foppishly, and wore a beard trimmed in the most modern style. The Coming Conquest of England He had entirely lost the almost foppish concern for his appearance, and was grown careless and slovenly in his dress. Captain Blood On the skeleton fingers of his right hand were no less than five rings—not men’s rings, nor women’s, but foppish rings—“that would fetch a price,” Daughtry adjudged. Michael, Brother of Jerry Charles, brought up by a charming mother, improved, and trained by a woman of fashion, had the elegant, dainty, foppish movements of a coxcomb. Eugenie Grandet With his long, fair hair and rather foppish frock-coat, he looked a singularly frail and fanciful figure as he walked down that shining avenue of death. The Man Who Was Thursday, a nightmare "Not too much so, my angel," replied Thuillier, with a foppish air. The Lesser Bourgeoisie From first to last he was the stern and beetle-browed marauder, who would have despised the frippery of Sixteen-String Jack as vehemently as his sudden appearance would have frightened the foppish lover of Ellen Roach. A Book of Scoundrels Fools had ne'er less grace in a year; For wise men are grown foppish, And know not how their wits to wear, Their manners are so apish. King Lear His hands were white and shapely and he was well groomed, though not in the least foppish. Lavender and Old Lace Have a care! society already begins to have its attraction for you: I have seen you with a shiny hat, a foppish neckerchief.... Taras Bulba and Other Tales "Indeed, my dear sir," said Monte Cristo, "you are revoltingly foppish." The Count of Monte Cristo “Any kind of work, no trade,” he told the agent; and was interrupted by a new-comer, dressed rather foppishly, as some workingmen dress who have instincts for finer things. Martin Eden |
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