About The Word Frippery
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Frippery
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What's The Definition Of Frippery?
[n] something of little value or significance
Synonyms | Synonyms for Frippery: bagatelle | fluff | frivolity Related Terms | Find terms related to Frippery: a continental | a curse | a damn | a darn | a hoot | bagatelle | bauble | bean | bedizenment | bibelot | bit | brass farthing | bravery | button | cent | chiffon | clinquant | curio | duplication | duplication of effort | embellishment | expletive | extravagance | fancy dress | farce | farthing | fat | feather | featherbedding | festoons | fig | filling | finery | fleabite | folderol | foofaraw | fribble | frill | frilliness | frilling | frills | frills and furbelows | froufrou | full dress | fuss | gaiety | gaud | gaudery | gewgaw | gilding | gilt | gimcrack | gingerbread | hair | halfpenny | hill of beans | jest | joke | kickshaw | knickknack | knickknackery | luxury | minikin | mockery | molehill | needlessness | ornamentation | overadornment | overlap | padding | party dress | paste | payroll padding | peppercorn | picayune | pin | pinch of snuff | pinchbeck | pinprick | pleonasm | prolixity | rap | red cent | redundance | redundancy | regalia | row of pins | rush | shit | snap | sneeshing | sou | straw | Sunday best | superfluity | superfluousness | tautology | tinsel | toy | trappings | trickery | trifle | trinket | triviality | trumpery | tuppence | two cents | twopence | unnecessariness | verbosity | war paint | whim-wham See Also | stuff | sundries | sundry | whatchamacallit | whatsis Frippery In Webster's Dictionary \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.
\Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. |
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