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A little or insignificant dandy; a contemptible fop.

marriage, became effeminate, and less sensible of honor. Bacon. An effeminate and unmanly foppery. Bp. Hurd.

To perfume; to scent. "Essenced fops." Addison.

e, capable of being readily or fully comprehended; -- opposed to esoteric, or secret. The foppery of an exoteric and esoteric doctrine. De Quincey.

n exquisite attention to external appearance; one who is overnice in dress or ornament; a fop; a dandy.

A person given to fantastic dress, manners, etc.; an eccentric person; a fop. Milton. Our fantastics, who, having a fine watch, take all ocasions to drow it out to be seen. Fuller.

One who studies the fashions; a fop; a dandy. Marston.

A frivolous, contemptible fellow; a fop. A pert fribble of a peer. Thackeray.

A French fop or dandy of the time of the Directory; hence, any fop.

A little dandy; a little, foppish, impertinent fellow.

One who struts; one who bears himself jauntily; a fop. [Obs.] Palsgrave.

A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.

r persons, no laws of war forbid the making reprisals. Addison. Some positive, persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so. Pope. That face persists. It floats up; it turns over in my mind. Mrs. Browning.

stinction is abolished in England. -- Petit maître (. Etym: [F., lit., little master.] A fop; a coxcomb; a ladies' man. Goldsmith. -- Petit serjeanty (Eng. Law), the tenure of lands of the crown, by the service of rendering annually some implement of war, as a bow, an arrow, a sword, a flag, etc. -- Petit treason, f…

A trifling, chattering, fop or coxcomb. "To be so pestered with a popinjay." Shak.

imes, overconfident; dogmatic; overbearing; -- said of persons. Some positive, persisting fops we know, That, if once wrong, will needs be always. Pope.

Affectedly nice; foppish; -- used in an ill sense. The pretty gentleman is the most complaisant in the world. Spectator.

A sauntering, or a sauntering place. That wheel of fops, that saunter of the town. Young.

tawdry dress; tawdry feathers; tawdry colors. He rails from morning to night at essenced fops and tawdry courtiers. Spectator.

A fop; a beau; a swell. [Slang, Eng.] Kipling.