frippery

  • 21frippery — n 1. finery, best clothes, best bib and tucker, Inf.Sunday clothes, Inf.Sunday best, Inf.Sunday go to meetings, Sl. glad rags, Sl. heavy threads. 2. frilliness, frills, frills and furbelows, falderal, trumpery, gaudery, fuss, Inf. foofaraw, Sl.… …

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  • 22frippery — frip·pery …

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  • 23frippery — frip•per•y [[t]ˈfrɪp ə ri[/t]] n. pl. per•ies 1) finery in dress, esp. when showy or gaudy 2) empty display; ostentation 3) gewgaws; trifles • Etymology: 1560–70; < F friperie, OF freperie …

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  • 24frippery — A store which sells old clothing …

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  • 25frippery — /ˈfrɪpəri/ (say fripuhree) noun (plural fripperies) 1. finery in dress, especially when tawdry. 2. empty display; ostentation. 3. unimportant things. {French friperie, Old French freperie, from frepe rag} …

  • 26frippery — n. & adj. n. (pl. ies) 1 showy, tawdry, or unnecessary finery or ornament, esp. in dress. 2 empty display in speech, literary style, etc. 3 a knick knacks, trifles. b a knick knack or trifle. adj. 1 frivolous. 2 contemptible. Etymology: F… …

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  • 27finery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. frippery, frills, tinsel. See ornament. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. frippery, regalia, dress clothes, trappings, trimmings, glad rags*, best bib and tucker*, Sunday best*, Sunday go to meeting clothes*;… …

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  • 29frill — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. trimming, decoration, ornament; ruffle, flounce, furbelow; extra, icing [on the cake] (inf.). See edge. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Anything thought to be unnecessary] Syn. embellishment, luxury, affection …

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  • 30frivolity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. levity, flightiness, giddiness, folly.See unimportance. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. flightiness, triviality, silliness, levity, flippancy, lightness, puerility, trifling, folly, frippery, flummery,… …

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