Frippery
['frɪp(ə)rɪ]
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞:
n. [1]. Old clothes, cast-off dresses.[2]. Trumpery, second-hand finery.
海伦娜編輯
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Trumpery, finery, tawdriness
ANT:Apparel, costume, uniform, dress, decoration, ornament
編輯:马里奥
解釋/意思:
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/造句/用法:
- All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- 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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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