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Webster 1913 Edition
Frippery
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
,Adj.
Trifling; contemptible.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frippery
FRIP'PERY
,Noun.
1.
Old clothes; cast dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing. Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as the frippery of wit.2.
The place where old clothes are sold.3.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.