FRIPPERY

n. a.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

2.
n.

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.
n.

A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.

4.
n.

The trade or traffic in old clothes.

5.
a.

Trifling; contemptible.

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