frippery

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

   “Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.”

2. isim Useless things; trifles.

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

3. isim Cast-off clothes.

   “If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.”

4. isim The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5. isim The place where old clothes are sold.

   “Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.”

6. isim Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

   “There's my pretty darling Kate; the faſhions of the times have almoſt infected her too. By living a year or two in town, ſhe is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the beſt of them.”