fribble

Example Sentences

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was the picture of a vapid youth, fair-haired, with thin moustache elaborately trained, and thinner whiskers—a fribble that gave half its little mind to its collar, and the other half to its boots.

From The Golden Calf by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)