'Frippery' definitions:
Definition of 'frippery'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Frippery'
From: GCIDE
- Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]
- 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. [1913 Webster]
- Fond of gauze and French frippery. --Goldsmith. [1913 Webster]
- The gauzy frippery of a French translation. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Frippery'
From: GCIDE
- Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. [1913 Webster]