FRIPPERY
frippery
Noun
- Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
- Useless things; trifles.
- 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted, "Report by F.L.O.", April 1892. Quoted in 2003, , '''', Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 170:
- reiterated his insistence that in Chicago" simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
- 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted, "Report by F.L.O.", April 1892. Quoted in 2003, , '''', Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 170:
- Cast-off clothes.
- The trade or traffic in old clothes.
- The place where old clothes are sold.
- Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
- Fond of gauze and French frippery. — .
- The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — .
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