frivulus

Updated: June 22, 2025

Towards the end there was another reference to Rupert Pinckney, the tragic lover of the future: "Rupert Pinckney was here to-day with his mother to luncheon and we had a palmetto salad and mother said when he was gone he was the most frivulus boy in Charleston, whatever that was, and too much of a dandy, but father said he had stuff in him and Aunt Susan, who was here too, said 'Yes, stuff and nonsense, and I said he could ride his pony without tumbling off like Silas Rhett, anyhow.

H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole - The Ghost Girl