perquisquilian

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Next, he calls the women's tailor-made gowns "the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys."

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  • Next, he calls the women's tailor-made gowns "the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys." —  History of American Literature
  • It is a most unworthy thing for men that have bones in them to spend their lives in making fiddle-cases for futilous women's fancies; which are the very pettitoes of infirmity, the giblets of perquisquilian toys .... —  Woman's Life in Colonial Days
 

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