Lexicographical Neighbors of Fopping
Literary usage of Fopping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Baronage and the Senate: Or, The House of Lords in the Past, the Present by William Charteris Macpherson (1893)
"Collier," says Lord Macaulay in his " Essay on the Dramatists of the Restoration," —"
Collier blames Vanbrugh for putting into Lord fopping- ton's mouth ..."
2. Critical, Historical, and Miscellaneous Essays and Poems by Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay (1882)
"Thus he blames Vanbrugh for putting into Lord fopping- ton's mouth some contemptuous
expressions respecting the Church service; though it is obvious that ..."
3. The Spectator: With Sketches of the Lives of the Authors, an Index, and by Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1853)
"Were one to raise a suspicion of himself in a man who passes upon the world for
a fine thing in order to alarm him, one might say, if Lord fopping- ton were ..."
4. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1912)
"1 As he could see no difference between art and We, so he could [[not separate
satire from the thing satirised. That lord fopping- ..."
5. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1860)
"... who through the play sneers at his pedantic fopping, asks if they are surgeon's
instruments ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... Lear, Pierre ; among the latter, Lord fopping- ton, in Gibbers ' Careless
Husband,' Fond- ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1907)
"You write about folk-lore—then you will begin to enjoy It." I remembered that
Lord fopping- ton held similar views when he said. ..."
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