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frippery |
3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Frippery \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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: frippery n : something of little value or significance [syn: {bagatelle}, {fluff}, {frivolity}]
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