Word: foppishness
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...himself, that to many the new biography by Oskar von Riesemann will be news entirely. The story is of a young aristocrat who left military service to become a government clerk that he might have more time for music. Borodin remembered him in the early days as a foppish fellow who played bits from Trovatore and Traviata but that pretty stage passed swiftly. A peasant streak came out. Moussorgsky loved Russia and its history. He loved the people and the soil whence they came. He would put them in his music and that music would be unfixed by petty patterns...
Middle Seventeenth Century. Writer-folk had always filled him with awe: he patronized a hack-writer till the scurrilous wag wrote a lucrative burlesque on his patron's foppish existence. King Charles thereupon gave Orlando escape as Ambassador Extraordinary to Constantinople though Nell Gwyn regretted that such a pair of legs should leave the country...
...Just that!" shouted the man with the ire, planting his left fist on the other's foppish...
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, in an English accent and making a coy moue, said "That's for you, horrid man!" as she tossed a glass of champagne upon the front of Erskine Gwynne, foppish nephew of the late Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt. The tossing occurred in a Paris cabaret, where Erskine Gwynne and Peggy Joyce were amusing themselves with separate parties. Erskine Gwynne had written an article called "Peggy Hotsprings Choice, Five Times a Bride but Never a Wife." After the tossing, Peggy Joyce and Erskine Gwynne played together in the cabaret and disappeared together...
Surviving Baron Dalziel is his famed collaborator in the merger, fat and foppish...