fripperies

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Definition of fripperies in English English dictionary

frippery
Useless things; trifles

simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

frippery
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance

The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.

frippery
The place where old clothes are sold
frippery
A store which sells old clothing
frippery
disapproval If you refer to something as frippery, you mean that it is silly or unnecessary, and only done or worn for pleasure all the fripperies with which the Edwardian woman indulged herself. a sombre display, with no frills or frippery. fripperies an unnecessary and useless object or decoration
frippery
Cast-off clothes
frippery
{i} cheap clothing; cheap jewelry; showiness; triviality, unimportant matter
frippery
something of little value or significance
frippery
Coast-off clothes
frippery
Trifling; contemptible
frippery
Something trivial
frippery
A place where old clothes are sold
frippery
Ostentation, as in fancy clothing
frippery
The trade or traffic in old clothes
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