Definizione monolingua

frippery

frippery (countable and uncountable; plural fripperies)

1. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
2. Useless things; trifles.

   1892 Frederick Law Olmsted, ""Report by F.L.O."", April 1892. Quoted in 2003, Erik Larson, The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair that Changed America, Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 170:

   • [""Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago""] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

3. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
6. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

   Fond of gauze and French frippery. — Oliver Goldsmith.

   The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.

Definizione dizionario frippery

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