thumb|Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in [[John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696)]] thumb|A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, denoting a cavalier attitude
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thumb|Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in [[John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696)]] thumb|A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette, denoting a cavalier attitude
Fop was a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb, fribble, popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy, fashion-monger, and ninny. Macaroni was another term of the 18th century more specifically concerned with fashion.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fop” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.