Also 6 flamefew, 9 Sc. flamfoo. [Corruption of F. fanfelue:—med.L. famfalūca bubble, lie, app. ad. Gr. πομφόλυξ bubble. Cf. mod.F. fanfreluche.] A gewgaw, trifle, fantastic thing.
Also Sc. ‘Any gaudy trapping in female dress,’ ‘a gaudily dressed female’ (Jam.).
1580. Baret, Alv., F 614. A Flamefew, or the mooneshine in the water.
1583. Stanyhurst, Æneis, etc. (Arb.), 138. Voyd ye fro these flamfews, quoa the God, set a part the begun wurck.
1890. Temple Bar Mag., XC. Nov., 430. Fancy grown licorous and freakish on the lush undergrowths of an imagination always in a slight degree morbid, had bodied forth a curious flamfew.
