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Definition of Frippery
1. Noun. Something of little value or significance.
Definition of Frippery
1. n. Coast-off clothes.
2. a. Trifling; contemptible.
Definition of Frippery
1. Noun. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing. ¹
2. Noun. Useless things; trifles. ¹
3. Noun. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes. ¹
4. Noun. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes. ¹
5. Noun. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold. ¹
6. Noun. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frippery
1. excessive ornamentation [n -PERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frippery
Literary usage of Frippery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"Here is a picture of a frippery, from a print dated 1587, ... This frippery is
evidently something more than an old clothes- shop : the tailor is seated on ..."
2. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1865)
"0, ho, monster I we know what belongs to a frippery. SHAKESPEARE, The Tempest,
act iv. sc. ... Yet, if thou dost, come over, and but see our frippery. ..."
3. The History of Sandford and Merton by Thomas Day (1826)
"you mit of, instead of upon my back:—but I never will put such frippery on agam
as long as I have breath in my body.' Mr. Barlow asked the little boy where ..."
4. The Remains of the Late Mrs. Richard Trench: Being Selections from Her by Melesina Chenevix St. George Trench (1862)
"... always in view the baubles for which it is exchanged—the useless and fatiguing
ball or assembly, the cadence of the public singer, the bill for frippery ..."
5. The Court of England Under George IV.: Founded on a Diary Interspersed with by Charlotte Campbell Bury (1896)
"No," said Mr. Forrester, " I am certain the Duke of Brunswick is not such a
frippery fellow as you are." In short, he was treated with all sorts of ..."
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