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frippery
/ˈfɹɪpəɹi/
noun 5
Collocations
4ADJ.
all, simple
VERB + FRIPPERY
need, regarded
FRIPPERY + NOUN
ambition
ADV.
naturally
Definitions
noun
1
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.
2
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.”
3
Cast-off clothes.
If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.
4
The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5
The place where old clothes are sold.
Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.
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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.
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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
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The frippery-filled world of fashion confounded its critics yesterday when it became sombre and serious in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US.
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Mary doesn't need all that frippery for a simple visit to church.
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