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Folderol   Listen
noun
Falderal  n.  
1.
Nonsense; foolish talk. (Also spelled folderol and falderol) (Colloq.)
Synonyms: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.
2.
A knickknack; a gew-gaw.


Folderol  n.  (Also spelled falderal and falderol)  Nonsense; foolish talk. (Colloq.)
Synonyms: humbug; balderdash; poppycock.





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"Folderol" Quotes from Famous Books



... corncob pipes, dark beer, and sausages. He looks a careful blend of Falstaff and Napoleon III. He has conducted the Sun Dial in the New York Evening Sun since 1912. He stands out as one of the most penetrating satirists and resonant scoffers at folderol that this continent nourishes. He is far more than a colyumist: he is a poet—a kind of Meredithian Prometheus chained to the roar and clank of a Hoe press. He is a novelist of Stocktonian gifts, although unfortunately for us he writes the first half of a novel easier than ...
— Shandygaff • Christopher Morley
... other. This war is the direct result of the over-polite, diplomatic, standing-aloof, bowing-to-one-another in gold lace, which all European nations are guilty of in times of peace—castes and classes and uniforms and orders and such folderol, instead of the proper business of the day. Every nation in Europe knew that Germany was preparing for war. If they had really got together—not mere Hague Sunday-school talk and resolutions—but ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick


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