frippery

[US]/'frɪp(ə)rɪ/
[UK]/ˈfrɪpəri/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n.cheap and gaudy clothing;useless things

Example Sentences

She loves to wear frilly frippery on special occasions.

The room was filled with unnecessary frippery, making it look cluttered.

The minimalist design avoided any unnecessary frippery.

Her taste in clothing tends towards simple elegance rather than flashy frippery.

The antique shop was full of beautiful frippery from a bygone era.

The old mansion was adorned with ornate frippery that reflected its former grandeur.

She dismissed the idea of adding more frippery to the already extravagant design.

The costume designer added just the right amount of frippery to the dress to make it stand out on stage.

The artist's paintings were known for their intricate details and lack of frippery.

The fashion show featured avant-garde designs that eschewed traditional frippery.

Real-world Examples

Beauty products were no mere frippery.

Source: The Economist - Arts

The change in wedding frippery also reflects a fundamental shift in society.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Insiders say cheap and burly shearers did well in the recession, as cash- strapped customers cut back on frippery.

Source: The Economist - International

But little by little, he saw through her frippery and frivolity.

Source: Pan Pan

It is not indeed the making of necessaries that weakens the mind; but the frippery of dress.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 1)

Some may even prosper, as founders learn to go easy on the fripperies and to double down on their core business.

Source: Economist Business

Transcending the frippery was St Paul’s itself, symbol of London’s wealth and resilience, into whose cavernous dome the voices of choristers rose, ushering Lady Thatcher’s soul to her god.

Source: Postgraduate Entrance Exam No. 1: 900 Sentences from Foreign Publications in Slow American English

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.

Source: Middlemarch (Part One)

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