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Mentioned in Gilbert and Sullivan's "The Mikado": Act II, scene 8. Ko-Ko: "Is this a time for airy persiflage?"
I recall first hearing this phrase in the jocular "superfluous persiflage," as in "Cut the superfluous persiflage and get back to work."
Something like idle chitchat
Page 54 of Life With Jeeves by Wodehouse.
The time straying toward infidelity and confections and persiflage he withholds by steady faith. Preface 1855