This is a fine griffonage, to be sure! but I have not patience to write prettily; if you can only read it, it will do well enough.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart — Volume 01] Reference

But I must reserve a description of these trips until another letter, as I am sure you will be heartily tired by the time you have got through my griffonage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N.]

“trumpery,” as Captain Mirven unkindly calls the paraphernalia of the ladies, and among the rest, my six hundred pages of griffonage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Manners of the Americans] Reference

Excuse mon griffonage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference