frillery

Updated: May 27, 2025

"Why, it has come too late," he had told her when the scolding was over. "If I was one of your little scholars hyeh in Bear Creek schoolhouse, yu' could learn me to like such frillery I reckon. But I'm a mighty ignorant, growed-up man." "So much the worse for you!" said Molly. "No. I am pretty glad I am a man. Else I could not have learned the thing you have taught me."

Owen Wister - The Virginian, a Horseman of the Plains