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noun
- 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 . — Goldsmith.
- The gauzy of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.
- (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frippery (Page: 597)
(webster)
Etymology: French friperie, from fruper. See fripper.
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