A double almond, a forfeit.
1857. The unostentatious charity of drives, bouquets, small fillipeener jewelry, and other animal, vegetable, and mineral tributes of affection.—Knick. Mag., xlix. 180 (Feb.).
1857. The ring, once joked off on Amelia for a fillipeener.—Id., 186.
1857. We remember her rashly volunteering a $100 wedding-dress to a lady-boarder, in order to get off from paying a forfeit philopoena, and being in a state of great apprehension subsequently in case it might be looked for.—T. B. Gunn, ‘New York Boarding-houses,’ p. 138. (Italics in the original.)
1860. Nella was hunting among the almonds to find a phillipeener.—Knick. Mag., lvi., 364–5 (Oct.).
1898. One evening we invited him, with Mr. Delfino, to dine at our table and we ate a philopœna together.—Mrs. Mackin, ‘On Two Continents,’ p. 150.
