bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
(noun) something of little value or significance
Source: WordNet® 3.1
frippery (countable and uncountable, plural fripperies)
Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Useless things; trifles.
(obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
• Oliver Goldsmith
• Sir Walter Scott
Source: Wiktionary
Frip"per*y, n. Etym: [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]
1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.
3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frip"per*y, a.
Definition: Trifling; contemptible.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 September 2024
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