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Frippery

Frippery Definition And Meaning
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"pery\, 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"pery\, a. Trifling; contemptible.

Frippery Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Frippery?

[n] something of little value or significance

Synonyms | Synonyms for Frippery: bagatelle | fluff | frivolity

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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