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foppery (noun) -
1: foolish character or action : folly
2: the behavior or dress of a fop
Source : Merriam-Webster
Etymology : The word fop once referred to a foolish or silly person, a meaning that is now obsolete. The current sense of "fop" - a man who is extremely devoted to or vain about his appearance or dress - still holds a rather quaint charm. "Fop," which derives from Middle English, is related loosely to a Middle High German word meaning "to deceive" and dates from the 15th century. The noun "foppery" arrived on the scene in English about a century later. Its "folly" sense can be found in Shakespeare’s King Lear, where Edmund speaks of "the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars…."
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