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Lord Foppington

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A coxcomb who considers dress and fashion the end and aim of nobility. (Vanbrugh: The Relapse.)

 

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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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