frippery

English - Turkish

Definition of frippery in English Turkish dictionary: cicili bicili; ucuz giysi; değersiz süs; {i} gösterişli söz; değersiz süsler; {i} süs; cici bici şeyler; yapmacık; özellikle elbisede gereksiz süs

English - English

Definition of frippery in English English dictionary: Useless things; trifles
simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.; Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance
The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.; The place where old clothes are sold; Cast-off clothes; The trade or traffic in old clothes; Ostentation, as in fancy clothing; A store which sells old clothing; 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; {i} cheap clothing; cheap jewelry; showiness; triviality, unimportant matter; something of little value or significance; Coast-off clothes; Trifling; contemptible; Something trivial; A place where old clothes are sold

Turkish - English

Definition of frippery in Turkish English dictionary
süs püs needless, worthless, or excessive adornment; frippery, finery; tinsel, t: (kendine)

frippery

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frip·pe·ry

() From French friperie. From Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.

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