FRIPPERY

bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity

(noun) something of little value or significance

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

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

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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

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