Another word for foppery

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foppery

coxcombry, showiness, dandyism; see ostentation 1, vanity 1.

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The passage about Marie Antoinette, which has since become a stock piece in books of recitation, seemed to Francis a mere piece of foppery; for was she not a Messalina and a jade?
You do not believe this fact, nor that these are my real feelings; but that the whole is affected, or as you express it, downright foppery.

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