Before revision: Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696) A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette; denoting a cavalier attitude Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th century England.
After revision: Colley Cibber as Lord Foppington in John Vanbrugh's The Relapse (1696) A foppish medical student smoking a cigarette; denoting a cavalier attitude Fop became a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England.