frippery

Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.

Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.

Useless things; trifles.

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

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

Cast-off clothes.

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

The trade or traffic in old clothes.

The place where old clothes are sold.

Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.