“The genius of hifaluten, as the Americans call it … has received many mortal wounds lately from the hands of satirists. . … A quizzical Jenkins lately described the dress of a New York belle by stating that ‘she wore an exquisite hyphaluten on her head, while her train was composed of transparent fol-de-rol, and her petticoat of crambambuli flounced with Brussels three-ply of A No. 1.’”—Hingston: Introduction to Josh Billings.
