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De - Pt| English Dictionary: frippery | by the DICT Development Group |
| 3 results for frippery | |
| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Frippery \Frip"per*y\, n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See {Fripper}.] 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] --B. Jonson. 2. 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. A place where old clothes are sold. --Shak. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. | |
| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a. Trifling; contemptible. | |
