"foofaraw" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1944, Time, volume 44, page 15:",
          "text": "The thumping bands, the badges, the pretty girls and all the time-honored foofaraw failed to charge up the Republican batteries to the sparking point. The great engine just would not turn over — at the start.",
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          "ref": "2001 February 23, Paulina Borsook, “Art's Cold Welcome on the Web”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:",
          "text": "In the whole foofaraw around Napster, what mostly got lost was the artists. They are the Belgians of this controversy, trampled by armies heading someplace else.",
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          "ref": "2022 September 22, HarryBlank, “Mind Over Matter”, in SCP Foundation, archived from the original on 2024-05-23:",
          "text": "Lillian was therefore determined to keep dancing for as long as humanly possible. When Ngo fell into step beside her, she turned a corner hard enough to cut the lockstep short. When Ngo re-emerged to the fore, Lillian swung back aft. Once, she opened a door in the psychiatrist's face. Twice she walked directly into a crowd — into them, not among them, momentarily losing her pursuer in the resultant foofarah.",
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