Frippery
['frɪp(ə)rɪ]
解释:
(n.) Coast-off clothes.
(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.
(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
(a.) Trifling; contemptible.
整理:彼得
同义词及近义词:
n. [1]. Old clothes, cast-off dresses.[2]. Trumpery, second-hand finery.
海伦娜编辑
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Trumpery, finery, tawdriness
ANT:Apparel, costume, uniform, dress, decoration, ornament
编辑:马里奥
解释:
n. worn-out clothes: the place where old clothes are sold: useless trifles.—adj. useless: trifling.—n. Fripp′er one who deals in old clothes.
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例句:
- All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
录入:玛莎