Frippery

Noun

 * 1) Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
 * 2) Useless things; trifles.
 * 1892 Frederick Law Olmsted, "Report by F.L.O.", April 1892. Quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 170:
 * ["Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago"] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
 * 1)  Cast-off clothes.
 * 2)  The trade or traffic in old clothes.
 * 3)  The place where old clothes are sold.
 * 4) Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
 * Fond of gauze and French frippery. &mdash; Oliver Goldsmith.
 * The gauzy frippery of a French translation. &mdash; Sir W. Scott.

Adjectives for Frippery
feminine; tawdry; meretricious.

Thesaurus
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

Etymology
From friperie. From Old French fripier:. Compare fripper.

Translations

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