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

The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.

From Washington Post • Oct. 16, 2022

“Goon Squad” employed a number of narrative fripperies.

From New York Times • Mar. 29, 2022

You must have had a ritualistic bonfire of the fripperies, not planning for this eventuality, even though some kind of summer, realistically, will happen every other year.

From The Guardian • Jul. 4, 2018

“And we could reserve space to sell paintings, and combs, and fripperies from France.”

From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson