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
The irony is that all this fluff and fribble are arriving just as more women are getting serious about wine.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was a fribble thing called French Without Tears, but the customers liked it.
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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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Wicked, wicked, is the word I use," protested Mrs. Anerley, "for all this fribble about rooks and looks, and holding of candles, and curling of hair.
From Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)
These three years in Ely Place Cowper fribbled away agreeably enough.
From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Birrell, Augustine
The children fribbled about us while we talked away the afternoon.
From The Boss of Little Arcady by Wilson, Harry Leon
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."
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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 Sastrow, Bartholomew
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 Bunyan, John
