Frippery Definition

frĭpə-rē
fripperies
noun
fripperies
Cheap, gaudy clothes; tawdry finery.
Webster's New World
Showy display in dress, manners, speech, etc.; affectation of elegance.
Webster's New World
Something trivial or nonessential.
American Heritage
Useless things; trifles.
1892 Frederick Law Olmsted, "Report by F.L.O.", April 1892. Quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 170.
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Other Word Forms of Frippery

Noun

Singular:
frippery
Plural:
fripperies

Origin of Frippery

  • French friperie from Old French freperie old clothes from felpe, frepe from Medieval Latin faluppa worthless material of unknown origin

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From French friperie. From Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.

    From Wiktionary

Frippery Sentence Examples

  • Most are actually getting larger, sprouting LCD screens, card readers and all sorts of other frippery.

  • The cerebral cortexes of older folk are too hardened up to let such frippery in.

  • Flowers and other sorts of frippery were added to the formerly utilitarian rubber head pieces, giving swimwear a very distinctive look that is still associated with this period.

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Words Starting With

FFRFRI

Words Ending With

YRYERY

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Words Starting With F and Ending With Y

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