Example Sentences for frivolity. I will go to the Frivolity myself, and see whether I can learn anything about it there. Excitement, sensuality, frivolity, and meanness go together. To the outward world he was the magnificent seigneur, intent only on display and frivolity.
âA lie can get halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.â. That nugget of wisdom dates from the 1800s, ie., decades before anyone ever heard of the Internet â much less Fox âNews.â.
While the rhyme derives from sometime during the Victorian era, its origin dates back to the 1600s, when the Lord of the Manor would present brides with silver coins, and often they would be sixpence coins. Putting a sixpence coin in a brideâs shoe is intended as a symbol of her future financial security and wealth.