Frippery

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Coast-off clothes.

II. Frippery ·adj Trifling; contemptible.

III. Frippery ·noun A place where old clothes are sold.

IV. Frippery ·noun The trade or traffic in old clothes.

V. Frippery ·noun Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

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