fribble

Example Sentences

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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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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, of all men, was no Vicar of Bray, albeit he had abjured Dissent: but he felt his cloth insulted, and by this fribble of his own order.

From Hetty Wesley by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir