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frippery
English
Etymology
From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.
Pronunciation
Noun
frippery (countable and uncountable, plural fripperies)
- Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
- Useless things; trifles.
- 1892 April, Frederick Law Olmsted, Report by F.L.O., quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishing Group, ?ISBN, page 170:
- [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
- 1892 April, Frederick Law Olmsted, Report by F.L.O., quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, New York, N.Y.: Crown Publishing Group, ?ISBN, page 170:
- (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
- (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
- (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
- fond of gauze and French frippery
- the gauzy frippery of a French translation
Translations
References
- 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language, Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v 2 p 2213. [for entries 2, 3, 4, & 5]: Frippery (Page: 597)
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frumpery
English
Etymology
frump +? -ery
Noun
frumpery (countable and uncountable, plural frumperies)
- Frumpish appearance or behaviour.
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