Frippery
['frɪp(ə)rɪ]
Definition
(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.
Editor: Peter
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Old clothes, cast-off dresses.[2]. Trumpery, second-hand finery.
Checked by Helena
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Trumpery, finery, tawdriness
ANT:Apparel, costume, uniform, dress, decoration, ornament
Checker: Mario
Definition
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.
Edited by Bryan
Examples
- All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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