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frippery

[ frip-uh-ree ]

noun

, plural frip·per·ies.
  1. finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
  2. empty display; ostentation.
  3. gewgaws; trifles.


frippery

/ ˈfrɪpərɪ /

noun

  1. ornate or showy clothing or adornment
  2. showiness; ostentation
  3. unimportant considerations; trifles; trivia


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Word History and Origins

Origin of frippery1

1560–70; < French friperie, Old French freperie, equivalent to frepe rag + -erie -ery

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Word History and Origins

Origin of frippery1

C16: from Old French freperie , from frepe frill, rag, old garment, from Medieval Latin faluppa a straw, splinter, of obscure origin

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Example Sentences

With no frills and no production frippery, Knifepoint’s effectiveness derives partly from its minimalism.

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Yes you can function without them, but this is like refusing to use a gas stove because thermostats are just modern frippery.

That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy.

In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away.

It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church.

It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.

The millener gathered up her frippery, and put them into a band-box; telling her, she would wait on her ladyship again.

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