foppishnesses

Updated: July 12, 2026

And next, among these Puritans and Roundheads, we observe the very model of a Cavalier, with the curling lovelock, the fantastically trimmed beard, the embroidery, the ornamented rapier, the gilded dagger, and all other foppishnesses that distinguished the wild gallants who rode headlong to their overthrow in the cause of King Charles.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - Main Street: (From: "The Snow Image and Other Twice-Told Tales")