| Pronunciation: | | 'fripuree
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| Matching Terms: | | fripper, fripperer
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| | Definition: | | [n] something of little value or significance |
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| | Synonyms: | | bagatelle, fluff, frivolity |
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| | See Also: | | stuff, sundries, sundry, whatchamacallit, whatsis |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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.
\Frip"per*y\, a.
Trifling; contemptible.
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| | Related Terms: | | a continental, a curse, a damn, a darn, a hoot, bagatelle, bauble, bean, bedizenment, bibelot, bit, brass farthing, bravery, button, cent, chiffon, clinquant, curio, duplication, duplication of effort, embellishment, expletive, extravagance, fancy dress, farce, farthing, fat, feather, featherbedding, festoons, fig, filling, finery, fleabite, folderol, foofaraw, fribble, frill, frilliness, frilling, frills, frills and furbelows, froufrou, full dress, fuss, gaiety, gaud, gaudery, gewgaw, gilding, gilt, gimcrack, gingerbread, hair, halfpenny, hill of beans, jest, joke, kickshaw, knickknack, knickknackery, luxury, minikin, mockery, molehill, needlessness, ornamentation, overadornment, overlap, padding, party dress, paste, payroll padding, peppercorn, picayune, pin, pinch of snuff, pinchbeck, pinprick, pleonasm, prolixity, rap, red cent, redundance, redundancy, regalia, row of pins, rush, shit, snap, sneeshing, sou, straw, Sunday best, superfluity, superfluousness, tautology, tinsel, toy, trappings, trickery, trifle, trinket, triviality, trumpery, tuppence, two cents, twopence, unnecessariness, verbosity, war paint, whim-wham |
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