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Definition of Frippers
1. fripper [n] - See also: fripper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frippers
Literary usage of Frippers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Germanic Private Law by Rudolf Hübner, Francis Samuel Philbrick, Paul Vinogradoff, William Emanuel Walz (1918)
"On the other hand, the Jewry privilege was extended to some Christians; for
example, to publicans, goldsmiths, frippers, pawnbrokers, and everywhere and ..."
2. The History of France from the Earliest Times to 1848 by Guizot (François), Witt (Henriette Elizabeth) (1885)
"The frippers laid down their arms, and thirty or forty thousand men accompanied
him to the Palais-Royal. " Madame," said Marshal Meilleraye as he en* tered, ..."
3. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"And in Birching Lane, and along thence in Cornhill, westward, lived upholders,
or frippers, that is, such as sold apparel and old household stuff. ..."
4. History of the Working and Burgher Classes by Adolphe Granier de Cassagnac, Benjamin Edwards Green (1871)
"... the grand cook, the fishermen ; the grand chamberlain, the mercers, drapers,
furriers, and frippers ; the grand butler, the wine merchants. ..."
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