giroflet

Updated: June 1, 2025

That tall man, for instance, with the black beard and striped peignoir, yonder there's a fellow who comes once or twice a week all through the season, goes through the ceremony of undressing, smokes, gossips, criticises, is looked up to as an authority, and has never yet been seen off the platform. Then there's that bald man in the white robe his name's Giroflet a retired stockbroker.

Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - In the Days of My Youth