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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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.
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But during his four-day visit to Washington last week, the Prince kept the flirting to a fribble.
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It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it.
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The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.
From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
The children fribbled about us while we talked away the afternoon.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Harry Leon Wilson
These three years in Ely Place Cowper fribbled away agreeably enough.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell
Deprived of its influence, a painter could go off the rails and become a fribbling hack, a "strappazone," he wrote in Paris, "like all the others who are here."
From Time Magazine Archive
In this tract we find no unmeaning gallant fribbling, but the solemn language of one who had death and judgment before his face.
From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan
Humiliated by these reverses, with their prestige diminished and threatened with an ignominious fall, the fribbling authors of the war expected to save everything by substituting another chief for Wullenweber.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
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