English Dictionary

foppery

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞

The dress or actions of a fop. / Stupidity.

日本語の意味

派手な服装や行動（おしゃれな人、見せかけのファッションに起因する行動） / 愚かさ

The museum's new exhibit mocked the foppery of the era with its bright waistcoats and exaggerated wigs.

博物館の新しい展示は、派手なウエストコートや誇張されたかつらを使って、当時の洒落者の着飾りや見栄を張る振る舞いを嘲弄した。

意味（1）

The dress or actions of a fop.

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.

意味（2）

Stupidity.

This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, / when we are sick in fortune,–often the surfeit / of our own behavior,–we make guilty of our / disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as / if we were villains by necessity; fools by / heavenly compulsion […]

fopperies （ plural ）