A modern writer, whose poetical genius cannot be too much admired, chooses to call it a frippery way of writing.
The frippery of the island was dropped like the withes which bound Samson.
But upon me the crucifixes, the holy water, the vestments—in short, the frippery—these things have a less agreeable effect.
frippery which would be discarded in England is often useful in India.
She takes no interest in anything but the frippery side of life.
No, but like them I have learnt to rate all this frippery at its worth!
In this he distinguishes the three stages of Tattooing (including paint), frippery, and Clothes.
This frippery has not only the girl's personality but her very spirit in it.
His dynasty and his Empire were the frippery of a past time.
A heap of frippery, a handful of gems, a dish or two more on the table cannot give it.
1560s, "old clothes, cast-off garments," from Middle French friperie "old clothes, an old clothes shop," from Old French freperie, feuperie "old rags, rubbish" (13c.), from frepe, feupe "fringe; rags, old clothes," from Late Latin faluppa "chip, splinter, straw, fiber." The notion is of "things worn down, clothes rubbed to rags." The ironic meaning "finery" (but with overtones of tawdriness) dates from 1630s.