Frippery

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See
     {Fripper}.]
     1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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     2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration;


        affected elegance.
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              Fond of gauze and French frippery.    --Goldsmith.
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              The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
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     3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak.
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     4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a.
     Trifling; contemptible.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  frippery
       n : something of little value or significance [syn: {bagatelle},
            {fluff}, {frivolity}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "frippery":
     Sunday best, 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, superfluity,
     superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, toy, trappings, trickery,
     trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents,
     twopence, unnecessariness, verbosity, war paint, whim-wham