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frippery [ˈfrɪpərɪ] n pl -peries 1. ornate or showy clothing or adornment 2. showiness; ostentation 3. unimportant considerations; trifles; trivia [from Old French freperie, from frepe frill, rag, old garment, from Medieval Latin faluppa a straw, splinter, of obscure origin] Frippery tawdry finery, 1681; old clothes—Johnson, 1755. ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
frippery noun 1. frills, nonsense, finery, ostentation, pretentiousness, fussiness, glad rags (informal), tawdriness, flashiness, foppery, gaudiness, showiness, meretriciousness, fanciness, frilliness He despised such frippery. 2. decoration, toy, ornament, trinket, bauble, adornment, gewgaw, knick-knack, fandangle a sombre display, with no frills or fripperies Translations frippery n (pej: = cheap ornament) → Flitter m, → Kinkerlitzchen pl (inf); (= trivialities) → belanglose Kleinigkeiten pl How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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adornment bagatelle declamatory empurpled Fal-lals finery fluff frill Fripper frivolity magniloquent nonliteral oratorical orotund over-embellished poetical small beer stylistic trifle | The notable wife of Kamehameha, the renowned conqueror and king of the Sandwich Islands, used to pride herself in the skill she displayed in dyeing her tappa with contrasting colours disposed in regular figures; and, in the midst of the innovations of the times, was regarded, towards the decline of her life, as a lady of the old school, clinging as she did to the national cloth, in preference to the frippery of the European calicoes. It's only to turn out those things that aren't wanted," she said, putting something more on the heap of frippery that lay in Annushka's arms. "I do really wish one could see a little advance in the way of real refinement and true elegance among all the vast improvements we are making in frippery and follies," cried Mr. |
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