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What (who) is frippery$30112$ - definition
frippery
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n.
1.
Old clothes, cast-off dresses.
2.
Trumpery, second-hand finery.
3.
Trifling, trifles, stuff, nonsense, fribbling. See flummery.
Frippery
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·noun Coast-off clothes.
II. Frippery ·adj Trifling; contemptible.
III. Frippery ·noun A place where old clothes are sold.
IV. Frippery ·noun The trade or traffic in old clothes.
V. Frippery ·noun Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
frippery
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(fripperies)
If you refer to something as frippery, you mean that it is silly or unnecessary, and only done or worn for pleasure (mainly BRIT)
...all the fripperies with which the Edwardian woman indulged herself.
...a sombre display, with no frills or frippery.
N-UNCOUNT: also N in pl [disapproval]
