frippery
noun
perifol
EN But having thrown away, when he dismounted, all gestures and fripperies, all trophies of nuts and roses, and shrunk so that not only fame but even his own name was forgotten by him, he kept even in that desolation a vigilance which spared no phantom and luxuriated in no vision (...).
GL Pero prescindindo, ó desmontar, de tódolos afagos e perifoles, de todo trofeo de noces e rosas, e ó empequenecer, esquecendo non só a súa sona senón tamén o seu propio nome, mesmo naquela desolación conservaba unha vixilancia que non consente pantasmas e non se permite o luxo das visións (...).
Fonte: CAR (545)
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