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Definition of Fribbles
1. fribble [v] - See also: fribble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fribbles
Literary usage of Fribbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Childishness and Brutality of the Time: Some Plain Truths in Plain by Hargrave Jennings (1883)
"FOPS AND fribbles. I REALLY think that this world, in the present day, is afflicted
with two most deplorable annoyances. The old plagues, which were so ..."
2. Essays and Reviews by Edwin Percy Whipple (1883)
"All animals seemed nobler in their eyes than fops and fribbles, though, by a
course of very ... fops and fribbles can be demonstrated to be human beings. ..."
3. A Lecture on Heads by George Alexander Stevens (1788)
"With rapture 1 fell on the dear creature's face, With rapture the fond one return'd
my embrace. Let fribbles with beauty, ..."
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