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- noun Plural form of
folderol .
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Examples
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There had been, indeed, no "folderols" in her education.
Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller
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You can't buy sunsets, and loving wives, and cool spring water, and such folderols, with forty dollars; and forty million dollars can't buy back for me one day that I didn't ride with you to Hood Mountain.
Chapter XXVI 2010
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Venice, poetry and all the Italian folderols in Florence, and astrology in Pisa, and God knows what in that madman country of
Chapter 11 2010
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She did not talk books, nor art, nor similar folderols.
Chapter XV 2010
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All these folderols were far too grand for Hackney.
The Dressmaker Posie Graeme-Evans 2010
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As far as I can determine, in the past this fellow has created Magic: The Gathering cards and more than a few Dungeons & Dragons type folderols.
Archive 2006-08-01 fusenumber8 2006
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And they made a mistake there: the prizes were a lot of folderols and doodads like poetry books and illustrated
Babbit 2004
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"Puss has introduced so many of her folderols I haven't got used to them yet," he said.
At the Time Appointed J. N. [Illustrator] Marchand
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She was strong of body and mind, practical, probably somewhat hard, certainly with no sympathy for folderols.
Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll
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Highways are no longer the casual folderols of adventure, but the reposeful and efficient arteries of traffic.
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Ben Hecht 1929
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