English
Etymology
French friperie, from fruper. See fripper.
Pronunciation
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Noun
frippery
- Ostentation, as in fancy clothing
- Something trivial
- obsolete Cast-off clothes.
- obsolete The place where old clothes are sold.
- Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
#:Fond of gauze and French frippery. — Goldsmith.
#:The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.
- obsolete The trade or traffic in old clothes.
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