Hypertext Webster Gateway: "frippery"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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)
Frippery \Frip"per*y\, a.
Trifling; contemptible.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
frippery
n : something of little value or significance [syn: {bagatelle},
{fluff}, {frivolity}]
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