f-f-v-ism

Updated: June 1, 2025

But let no one think, whilst ridiculing those who can now only hide their poor stature under the lion-skin of F-F-V-ism, that the race of old Virginia gentlemen is a mythic race. Through the fair slopes of Eastern Virginia we have wandered and counted the epitaphs of as princely men and women as ever trod this continent.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 54, April, 1862