An actor can appear to be a fop when preening before a mirror. From LearnThat.org.
After unzipping the download, you will have a file name fop-0. 95 (the latest version as of November 4, 2008). From Wordnik.com. [fullasagoog.com full roast blend] Reference
At eight-and-twenty, Caesar, who not thirty years later was to die master of Rome, was chiefly known as a fop and a spendthrift. From Wordnik.com. [Roman life in the days of Cicero] Reference
Don Diego Viega, whose picture might just be beside the word 'fop' if California had a dictionary, can do nothing about it. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference
I didn't yet understand the word "fop," but I sure wanted to be one, even if I had to cut off one of my own hands to look this dashing. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
"You floundering fop, it will blast this town flat!". From Wordnik.com. [Sodom and Gomorrah, Texas] Reference
Can you have any other lover than that old fop Geres?. From Wordnik.com. [The Eleven Comedies, Volume 2] Reference
Nae fop was sae happy, though dress'd e'er sae gaudy. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
How could she have ever cared for such a fat, crude fop?. From Wordnik.com. [Tolstoy and Trollope Fans, Meet Couperus] Reference
Love that fop, that doll, that silly girl in men's clothes?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But only a literary fop can be detained by specks like these. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference
He turned his head to rest his cheek against the fop of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Frenchwoman, with her fluttering fop of a husband, and a boy, habited. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference
"Well, well," he said; "we have all a touch of the fop in our youth.". From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
I am contented you should laugh at me for a fop in talking of Livy or. From Wordnik.com. [Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles] Reference
"Nothing better could be expected from you, however, you careless fop!". From Wordnik.com. [The Youth of Jefferson A Chronicle of College Scrapes at Williamsburg, in Virginia, A.D. 1764] Reference
Of affectation of the young fop in the face impertinent an was seen smile. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
Elsewhere, the album is a catharsis fop Smith's frustration of the day, both. From Wordnik.com. [FallNews] Reference
She was not blind to the fact that he was a fop and not blessed with too much brain. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
Perth, who'd turned from a serious and helpful doctor into a supercilious, high-handed fop. From Wordnik.com. [The Sky Is Falling] Reference
He was a city man, a dandy, a fop, a gamer, a rake — and probably many more nasty things. From Wordnik.com. [No Man's Mistress]
Again, in answer to Cayphas's outrageous scream of fury, 'Spek man, spek! spek, thou fop!. From Wordnik.com. [The Growth of English Drama] Reference
"Ye-ye-yes, replied the saucy fop, be-be-better than you do, or else I would wring his head off.". From Wordnik.com. [Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.] Reference
Cibber, the foremost actor of the time, could play the fop better than he could play anything else. From Wordnik.com. [The Theory of the Theatre] Reference
To do him justice, fop as he was, he did not want for courage, and, moreover, he was a good swordsman. From Wordnik.com. [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference
And it was her daughter who was going to fall in love with an insipid fop who only coveted her millions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
BETTY FRIEDAN, FEMINISTIn 1957, I wrote a questionnaire fop the alumnae reunion of the Smith College class of 1942. From Wordnik.com. [The '50S] Reference
He could never have been taken for a fop, like Pen, but arrayed himself in a manner nicely suitable to his position. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
The stranger was dressed like a cavalry officer, and was the most astounding fop that the two Americans had ever seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
A young man, handsomely dressed and something of a fop after his valet-fashion, sprang up the stair -- his Grace's gentleman. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty] Reference
He was what might be called a literary fop, and was much given to the production of highly-wrought, Byronic poems and sketches. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Summer Or, Journal Leaves from Chappaqua] Reference
There was nothing conceited about Donaldson, nothing of the fop, but he enjoyed both the feeling and the appearance of rich garments. From Wordnik.com. [The Seventh Noon] Reference
Saniel was not simple enough to be caught by words, nor was he a fop who accepts with gaping mouth all the compliments addressed to him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The one was laughed at as a fop; and I heard many whispers against the other, as a whimsical sort of fellow, and a great enemy to trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference
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