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Foppington (Lord)

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An empty coxcomb in Vanbrugh’s Relapse, of which Sheridan’s Trip to Scarborough is a modified version.

“The shoemaker in the Relapse tells Lord Foppington that his lordship is mistaken in supposing that his shoe pinches.”—Lord Macaulay.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Foot-breadth
Foot-lights
Foot Monsters
Foot-notes
Foot-pound
Foot of a Page
Footing
Footman’s Wand (A)
Footmen
Fop’s Alley
Foppington (Lord)
Forbears
Forbës
Forbidden Fruit (The)
Foreible Feeble School
Ford
Fordelis (in Orlando Furioso)
Fore
Fore-and-Aft
Forecastle
Foreclose