frippery
noun
finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
fripperies
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pluralof frippery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
“Goon Squad” employed a number of narrative fripperies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
It's been a long time since I've addressed friends and dinner parties and crystal fripperies in some other context than their abrupt cancellation.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2021
It is not at all good, but the crucial distinction to make is that its aggressive un-goodness strikes a different timbre than the comparable un-goodness of Franco’s highfalutin literary adaptations or experimental fripperies.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2018
They are fripperies to the soul of man.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
