griffonage

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This is a fine griffonage, to be sure! but I have not patience to write prettily; if you can only read it, it will do well enough.

From The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01 by Nohl, Ludwig

We hastened to pack up our "trumpery," as Captain Mirven unkindly calls the paraphernalia of the ladies, and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.

From Domestic Manners of the Americans by Trollope, Fanny

But I must reserve a description of these trips until another letter, as I am sure you will be heartily tired by the time you have got through my griffonage.

From Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N. — a Memoir by Ledbury, Lady Biddulph of

There was a heap of little crumpled bills which, with Felicie's griffonage, Helen had thrown into her table-drawer.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 10 by Edgeworth, Maria