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frippery
[ frip-uh-ree ]
noun
- finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
- empty display; ostentation.
- gewgaws; trifles.
frippery
/ ˈfrɪpərɪ /
noun
- ornate or showy clothing or adornment
- showiness; ostentation
- unimportant considerations; trifles; trivia
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of frippery1
Example Sentences
With no frills and no production frippery, Knifepoint’s effectiveness derives partly from its minimalism.
Yes you can function without them, but this is like refusing to use a gas stove because thermostats are just modern frippery.
That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy.
In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away.
It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church.
It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.
The millener gathered up her frippery, and put them into a band-box; telling her, she would wait on her ladyship again.
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