different between frippery vs wantonness

English

From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.

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.
(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.
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
- fond of gauze and French frippery
- the gauzy frippery of a French translation

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)

From Middle English wantonnesse, wantonesse, wantounesse, wantownesse, equivalent to wanton +? -ness.

wantonness (usually uncountable, plural wantonnesses)

(uncountable) The state or characteristic of being wanton; recklessness, especially as represented in lascivious or other excessive behavior.
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Act IV scene ii^[1]:
  The spirit of wantonness is, sure, scared out of him: if the devil have him not in fee-simple, with fine and recovery, he will never, I think, in the way of waste, attempt us again.
- 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, ch. 16:
  The sweetness was turned to adamantine, heartless cruelty, and the purity to voluptuous wantonness.
(countable, dated) A particular wanton act.
- 1882, John Gorham Palfrey, History of New England during the Stuart Dynasty, Little Brown (Boston), v. 3, p. 366:
  These were simply the wantonnesses of a dishonest man.

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