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[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
frippery \frip"pery\, 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
see also:
fripper 
[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
frippery \frip"pery\, a.
   trifling; contemptible.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
frippery
     n : something of little value or significance syn: bagatelle,
          fluff, frivolity
see also:
bagatelle fluff frivolity 
[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
112 moby thesaurus words for "frippery":
   sunday best, a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot,
   bagatelle, bauble, bean, bedizenment, bibelot, bit, brass farthing,
   bravery, button, cent, chiffon, clinquant, curio, duplication,
   duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance,
   fancy dress, farce, farthing, fat, feather, featherbedding,
   festoons, fig, filling, finery, fleabite, folderol, foofaraw,
   fribble, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows,
   froufrou, full dress, fuss, gaiety, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding,
   gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest,
   joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, luxury, minikin,
   mockery, molehill, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment,
   overlap, padding, party dress, paste, payroll padding, peppercorn,
   picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick, pleonasm,
   prolixity, rap, red cent, redundance, redundancy, regalia,
   row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, superfluity,
   superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, toy, trappings, trickery,
   trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents,
   twopence, unnecessariness, verbosity, war paint, whim-wham





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