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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, 29 Sep. 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 2024
Alec Roberts’s Lorenzo was more practical than greedy; John Lam made Gamache an endearing and nuanced fop.
—Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
From the very beginning, though, riders were also mocked as fops pursuing a ludicrous pastime.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
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Noun
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
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 2024
Alec Roberts’s Lorenzo was more practical than greedy; John Lam made Gamache an endearing and nuanced fop.
—Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
From the very beginning, though, riders were also mocked as fops pursuing a ludicrous pastime.
—Clive Thompson, Smithsonian, 21 Nov. 2019
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“Fop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fop. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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