What is another word for fops?

Pronunciation: [fˈɒps] (IPA)

Fops, or gentlemen overly concerned with their appearance, can be alternatively referred to as dandies, beau brummels, macaronis, or fashion plates. These words all carry similar meanings, emphasizing an obsession with fashion, refinement, and elegance. A dandy, for example, is a man who is fastidious about his appearance and often considered a trendsetter. Beau Brummel was a famous Regency era dandy who set the standard for clothing and etiquette. Macaroni was a term used in the 18th century for a man who was excessively fashionable and impressed with foreign cultures. And a fashion plate is often used to describe someone who consistently wears trendy clothing and acts as a model for others to follow.

What are the hypernyms for Fops?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    show-off, pretentious person, superficial people, Eccentric character, Person with excessive vanity.

Usage examples for Fops

Nay, even when, some few months later, there died at Vienna the old Abate Metastasio, and his death brought home to a rather forgetful world what a poet and what a dramatist that old Metastasio had been; even then, an intimate friend of the dead man, a worldly priest, a quasi prelate, the Abate Taruffi, could find no better winding up for the funeral oration, delivered before all the pedants and prigs and fops and spies of pontifical Rome assembled in the rooms of the Arcadian academy, than to point to Count Vittorio Alfieri, and prophesy that Metastasio had found a successor greater than himself.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
Only that there is some fresh gossip afloat, mixing up my daughter's name with that of one of the reckless fops of this place.
"The Master of the Ceremonies"
George Manville Fenn
The officer was now more than ever strongly marked in him, and he tried to emulate the effeminate charms of the fops in the Guards.
"The Song of Songs"
Hermann Sudermann

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