Fribbles [noun]

Somehow, she found it difficult to imagine a friendship between Godfrey and this little fribble of a woman.

Nor can such a person be a mere fribble; nor can any loose hanger-on of fashion imagine he may assume the character.

And so he became a priest, a fribble, and a coxcomb, but a man of truth.

But I might say that she is in fulness a woman—not a fribble, or one of those pick-me-up-and-carry-me women.

He ought to have been taken about the country in order to show the world the true meaning of a fribble and a beau.

But even the logical fribble, even the logical jargonist, was bound to be exact.

He had too much intellect to be a mere fribble, and had not the strong animal passions of the thorough debauchee.

One of them, it appeared, was a man who had run away from his wife; the other, an idle fribble who might be anything.

The days are gone when a girl would so much as look at such a fribble as Sir Plume.

At any rate my love for her died, slain by the ice in her heart; and the foolish fribble I was passed into a man of resolution.