fribble

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In the film Brummell is at one moment a fribble fellow who orders his dressing gown to match his sheets and his boots buffed with champagne.

From Time Magazine Archive

But during his four-day visit to Washington last week, the Prince kept the flirting to a fribble.

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The irony is that all this fluff and fribble are arriving just as more women are getting serious about wine.

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It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it.

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He did his formal duties, and was equally diligent "at his post where beauty and fashion rule"—a fribble and a coxcomb, in short, as he described himself to the judges at the murder-trial. . . .

From Browning's Heroines by Armfield, Maxwell