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Date: 1600-1700
Origin: Early modern French, from Old French feble; FEEBLE

foible

 noun
     
foi‧ble [countable]
a small weakness or strange habit that someone has, which does not harm anyone else [= peculiarity]:
We all have our little foibles.
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