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frippery

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frip·per·y  (frp-r)
n. pl. frip·per·ies
1. Pretentious, showy finery.
2. Pretentious elegance; ostentation.
3. Something trivial or nonessential.

[French friperie, from Old French freperie, old clothes, from felpe, frepe, from Medieval Latin faluppa, worthless material.]

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
Noun1.frippery - something of little value or significance
small beer, trivia, triviality, trifle - something of small importance

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 [ˈfrɪpərɪ] N (esp Brit) → perifollos mpl, perejiles mpl
frippery
n (pej: = cheap ornament) → Flitter m, → Kinkerlitzchen pl (inf); (= trivialities)belanglose Kleinigkeiten pl
frippery [ˈfrɪpərɪ] n (pej) fripperiescianfrusaglie fpl
frippery [ˈfrɪpərɪ] n (pej) fripperiescianfrusaglie fpl


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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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