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Definition of Frippery

Frippery
Frippery Frip"per*y, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. 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. 3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frippery
Frippery Frip"per*y, a. Trifling; contemptible.

Meaning of Frippery from wikipedia

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- violence, war, and military service, and what they viewed as ostentatious frippery. Kedah, Malaysia Matanzas Province, Cuba Rhône-Alpes, France Pennsylvania...
- doesn't attempt to update the band's sound with hip-hop moves or electronic frippery, for which God should bless 'em, indeed. The girls' hold on the current...
- designed "to gradually gain rhythmic m****" with "a lot of time and pointless frippery to get there" to the point that it felt "merely indulgent" to them. However...
- Retrieved May 8, 2018. Larkin, Kathy (February 17, 1983). "Trumpery, frippery, finery". The New York Daily News. Archived from the original on May 9...
- doesn't attempt to update the band's sound with hip-hop moves or electronic frippery, for which God should bless 'em, indeed. The girls' hold on the current...
- how Cixi spent funds destined for the imperial navy on such extravagant fripperies – which ultimately led to ****an's victory over China in 1895 and the loss...
- involving Hayley was criticised as "undercooked" by ****ming and "extraneous frippery" by Bramesco, but Vorel found the nature of her attempting to log into...
- Holden, Stephen (4 April 1997). "A Post-Soviet Travelogue Of Pre-Soviet Frippery". The New York Times. McCarthy, Todd (1 April 1997). "Leo Tolstoy's Anna...
- Gleiberman of Entertainment W****ly described the film as "all cutesy updated fripperies and zero momentum." In 2020, Petrana Radulovic, writing for Polygon, praised...