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frippery


Definition of frippery, meaning of frippery

Noun

frippery

  1. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
  2. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
  3. 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.
  4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

Frippery (Page: 597)

Part or all of this page has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

8 letters in word "frippery": E F I P P R R Y.

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