|
|
Definition of Fripper
1. n. One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
Definition of Fripper
1. Noun. (obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fripper
1. a dealer in old clothes [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fripper
Literary usage of Fripper
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"... for fripier, the same as fripper. A broker, or pawnbroker. See Cotgrave, under
Fripier, which he renders, "л fripier, or broker," &c. ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"... fo'r fripier, the same as fripper. A broker, or pawnbroker. See Cotgrave,
under Fripier, which he renders, "a fripier, or broker," &c. ..."
3. Recent Exemplifications of False Philology by Fitzedward Hall (1872)
"1 Fruiterer is "a corruption of the French fruitier ; and fripper er, shortened
to fripper, of the French ..."
Other Resources:
