Feminine

fanfaluca

  1. (feminine) bubble
  2. (feminine) nonsense, idle chatter
  3. (feminine) whim, fancy
  4. (archaic, feminine) fragment of cinder rising from something that burns

Etymology

Late Latin famfalūca, from Ancient Greek πομφόλυξ (pomphólux, “air bubble”). Cf. Old French fanfalue (“trifle”), French fanfreluche (“frill”).

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