frippets

Noun

frippet (countable and uncountable, plural frippets)

1. (archaic, humorous, slang) A frivolous or showy young woman.
   • Look at it, Phyllis Maud. There are the light, tripping syllables of ‘Phyllis’ suggesting the bright, sweet, merry creature, and there is the sonorous dignity of Maud which tells the girl will have a soul – she will not be a frippet – I could read [Percy Bysshe] Shelley to her and she would look at...1908 May 13, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “To Blanche Jennings, from Lynn Croft, Eastwood, 13 May 1908”, in Harry T. Moore, editor, The Collected Letters of D. H. Lawrence […], volume 1, New York...