Meanings
comparative more foppishly · superlative most foppishly
- In a foppish way.
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With Piazza Maggiore, Bologna’s main square, as the backdrop, a short video depiction of the volume, which can be seen on www.fmronline.it, was followed on Thursday night by an hourlong spectacle that included dozens of costumed dancers, a string quartet playing from a stage suspended in midair, suckling pigs roasted over a pit, a fake snowfall and a foppishly dressed acrobat walking Spiderman^([sic])-style up the facade of San Petronio, the city’s cathedral.
2008 May 31, Elisabetta Povoledo, “Michelangelo for Readers With Deep Pockets”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 Dec 2011
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