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
The impression, as usual with him, was of an artist who dispenses with formalities and fripperies to focus — with relaxation but also intense seriousness — on the music.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 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
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
It came from the surly angers of Gawaine, the fripperies of Mordred, and the sarcasms of Agravaine.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
