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Definition of Frivolities
1. frivolity [n] - See also: frivolity
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frivolities
Literary usage of Frivolities
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha by Miguel de ( Cervantes Saavedra, Henry Edward Watts (1888)
"... with other frivolities which cannot be left untold. DON ANTONIO MORENO was
the name of Don Quixote's host, a rich and witty gentleman, and a lover of ..."
2. A Library of American Literature from the Earliest Settlement to the Present by Edmund Clarence Stedman, Ellen Mackay Hutchinson (1887)
"... though the magistrate's person be profane and heathenish. BOHN in Suffolk,
England, 1570. DIED In Essex, England, 1653. ON THE Frivolities OF FASHION. ..."
3. A History of American Literature by Moses Coit Tyler (1883)
"... respecting the Country "—The sinfulness of long hair and of periwigs— Condemnation
of other frivolities. VII.—Benjamin Colman—His great contemporaneous ..."
4. The Amazing Duchess: Being the Romantic History of Elizabeth Chudleigh, Maid by Charles E. Pearce (1911)
"... silence—Elizabeth's anxiety—The rising of '45—The condemned rebel lords—George
Selwyn's morbid mania—Frivolities at Frederick's Court—Augustus Hervey's ..."
5. Memoirs of Napoleon, His Court and Family by Laure Junot Abrantès (1854)
"... and frivolities—Anecdote of his embassy to the court of Catherine—The theatre
of the Hermitage—The ambassador as Countess ..."
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