Frippery
4 definitions retrieved  Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster] 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. [1913 Webster] Fond of gauze and French frippery. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster] The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. [1913 Webster] Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. [1913 Webster]  frippery n 1: something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity]  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 Frippery related |
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