Noun
he's such a fop that he drives nearly 50 miles just to get his hair cut by Monsieur Louis
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The New Yorker loves and fetishizes its traditions (the monocled fop Eustace Tilley, that stately but sensual Adobe Caslon font), but the magazine’s ultimate tradition is cutting through the scrim of contemporary noise to look reality in the eye, presenting it to the reader with a no-fuss vibrance.—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 1 Dec. 2025 The film chronicles a rich fop who studies a magic manual and teaches himself how to achieve X-ray vision and clairvoyance.—The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023 The telegrams lead to the arrival of Sylvia’s husband (and Beau’s brother), the tweedy fop Clarke (Alex Moffat, playing him a little Biden-esque), as well as Beau’s very pregnant wife, Marjorie (Lilli Cooper), both of whom have secrets of their own.—Vulture, 24 July 2023 Phelan locates the quiet truth in this last reversal of fortunes. Creel, infusing every line reading with delectable originality, plays the Prince as a preening fop who excuses his behavior by explaining to Cinderella late in the musical that he’s meant to be charming, not sincere.—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2023 See All Example Sentences for fop
Word History
Etymology
Noun
Middle English; akin to Middle English fobben to deceive, Middle High German voppen
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