Frippery

Quick meaning: Frippery is a noun meaning Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

Meaning

Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

More Meanings

1. Useless things; trifles.
2. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
3. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.

Example Sentences

“At any rate you see me still unmarried. I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.”

If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.

And so frippery and force combine to make a political position – support for the monarchy – seem like the natural, sacred default.

[Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

Word Forms

• fripperies

Synonyms for frippery

Depending on context, synonyms include bagatelle, frivolity, fluff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include frivolity, bagatelle, fluff, frillery, frumpery, gaudiness.

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