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frippery

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8 lettersPronunciation /ˈfɹɪpəɹi/Part of speech nounSorted efipprryStarts with FEnds with Y0 clues
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Definitions

  1. something of little value or significance

Word origin

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

Used in a sentence

  • Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.
  • Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.
  • The frippery-filled world of fashion confounded its critics yesterday when it became sombre and serious in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US.

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