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Inside the train, a foppish, gender-bending revolution is brewing.
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Moore can lay on Wimsey’s fussy, foppish mannerisms awfully thick as well, like a dandy in an old drawing room comedy rather than a gentleman of true substance.
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To mark the occasion, Lubanski gave Frazee a foppish stuffed bunny with satin, pink paws.
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The protagonist, one Reginald Bunthorne, is a foppish aesthete who’s gained star status but is frustrated in his attempts to win the heart of the titular milkmaid Patience.
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First Known Use of foppish
1599
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