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It would have been filled with fruit, flummeries or blancmanges, biscuits, gateaux, jellies and ice cream.

From BBC • May 10, 2013

Dishes included white soup, partridge pie and jelly desserts or flummeries.

From BBC • May 10, 2013

There were plenty of ways to do this; all sorts of accounting flummeries had already been perpetrated, but a final tweak was needed.

From Time Magazine Archive

The flattery, handholding and creative fudgery that are at the heart of diplomacy are the very sort of fancy-pants flummeries that the President abhors.

From Time Magazine Archive

Johnnie had as yet seen nothing more pretentious than the starched and ruffled flummeries of a small mountain watering-place.

From The Power and the Glory by Keller, Arthur Ignatius