frippery
IPA: frˈɪpɝi
noun
- Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
- Useless things; trifles.
- (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
- (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
- (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
- Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
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Examples of "frippery" in Sentences
- In the scalar world all of this is pedantic frippery.
- To allow such frippery would be harmful to the project.
- Inline citations are a cosmetic matter, a mere frippery.
- There was no extraneous frippery, and the Stax house band never wasted a note.
- He was not a designer with a capital D. He had no truck for frippery or fashion.