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Definition of Folderols
1. folderol [n] - See also: folderol
Lexicographical Neighbors of Folderols
Literary usage of Folderols
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1912)
"Enormously inflated value is often implied by costly folderols of very bad taste,
which really lessen value. Many of these books would be sound property, ..."
2. Two Centuries of Costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX by Alice Morse Earle (1903)
"This was fastened to the muff, and may have served as a purse or an equipage to
carry folderols. It is always a surprise to me to find a sedate old English ..."
3. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... her ribbons, and what she considered her folderols in general. And how kind,
she went on in her thoughts, it was of Julia to want her now! what comfort' ..."
4. Continental Stagecraft by Kenneth Macgowan, Robert Edmond Jones (1922)
"... arch into the side wall and installing behind it a huge stage with all the
mechanical folderols of the day—great dome, cloud-machine, revolving stage. ..."
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