half-fop

Updated: August 5, 2026

This gentleman was slender of limb, and tall; his lower extremities were clad in a tight pair of short breeches, beneath which, scarlet stockings plunged themselves into enormous shoes, decorated with huge rosettes; his coat was half-military, half-fop; and a long sword buckled round his waist, knocked against his fantastic grasshopper legs.

John Esten Cooke - The Last of the Foresters : Or, Humors on the Border; A story of the Old Virginia Frontier