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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See
Fripper.]
1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
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2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration;
affected elegance.
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Fond of gauze and French frippery. --Goldsmith.
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The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W.
Scott.
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3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak.
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4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a.
Trifling; contemptible.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See
Fripper.]
1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration;
affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery. --Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W.
Scott.
3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak.
4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a.
Trifling; contemptible.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]
frippery
n : something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle,
fluff, frivolity]
From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]
frippery
n.
1 ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
2 Useless things; trifles.
3 (lb en obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4 (lb en obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5 (lb en obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
6 Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected
elegance.
From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]
frippery
n.
1 ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
2 Useless things; trifles.
3 (lb en obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4 (lb en obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5 (lb en obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
6 Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected
elegance.
From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]
frippery
n.
1 ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
2 Useless things; trifles.
3 (lb en obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4 (lb en obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5 (lb en obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
6 Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected
elegance.
From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]
frippery
n.
1 ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
2 Useless things; trifles.
3 (lb en obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4 (lb en obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5 (lb en obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
6 Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected
elegance.
From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]
frippery //ˈfɹɪpəɹi//
дрънкулки
Useless things; trifles
From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]
frippery /fɹˈɪpəɹi/
tretky
From English - German Ding/FreeDict dictionary ver. 1.9-fd1 : [ freedict:eng-deu ]
frippery /fɹˈɪpəɹi/
Firlefanz , Schnickschnack [ugs.]
Synonyms: gew gaws, fripperies, foofaraw
From English-Hindi FreeDict Dictionary ver. 1.6 : [ freedict:eng-hin ]
frippery /fɹˈɪpəɹi/
1. आडम्बर
"She was wearing a dress with golden frippery."
From English-Croatian FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.2.2 : [ freedict:eng-hrv ]
frippery /fɹˈɪpəɹi/
drangulije, drečavi ukrasi
From English-Turkish FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.3 : [ freedict:eng-tur ]
frippery /fɹˈɪpəɹi/
1. özellikle elbisede gereksiz süs
2. yapmacık, gösterişli söz
3. cici bici şeyler, değersiz süsler.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 : [ moby-thesaurus ]
112 Moby Thesaurus words for "frippery":
Sunday best, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot,
bagatelle, bauble, bean, bedizenment, bibelot, bit, brass farthing,
bravery, button, cent, chiffon, clinquant, curio, duplication,
duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance,
fancy dress, farce, farthing, fat, feather, featherbedding,
festoons, fig, filling, finery, fleabite, folderol, foofaraw,
fribble, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows,
froufrou, full dress, fuss, gaiety, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding,
gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest,
joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, luxury, minikin,
mockery, molehill, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment,
overlap, padding, party dress, paste, payroll padding, peppercorn,
picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick, pleonasm,
prolixity, rap, red cent, redundance, redundancy, regalia,
row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, superfluity,
superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, toy, trappings, trickery,
trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents,
twopence, unnecessariness, verbosity, war paint, whim-wham
From Stardic English-Chinese Dictionary : [ stardic ]
n. 低俗，俗艳
From XDICT the English-Chinese dictionary : [ xdict ]
n. 俗艳,无用的东西
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