Both Uses of
trifle
in
Babbitt
- It was a pansy-embroidered trifle which always hung there to indicate that the Babbitts were in the best Floral Heights society.†
Chpt 1 *
- To the eye, the men were less similar: Littlefield, a hedge-scholar, tall and horse-faced; Chum Frink, a trifle of a man with soft and mouse-like hair, advertising his profession as poet by a silk cord on his eye-glasses; Vergil Gunch, broad, with coarse black hair en brosse; Eddie Swanson, a bald and bouncing young man who showed his taste for elegance by an evening waistcoat of figured black silk with glass buttons; Orville Jones, a steady-looking, stubby, not very memorable person,…†
Chpt 8
Definition:
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(trifle as in: a trifling matter) something of small importance; or a small quantity