'Frippery' definitions:

Definition of 'frippery'

(from WordNet)
noun
Something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity]

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]