Thesaurus: frippery

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1. n. Coast-off clothes.
2. n. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
3. n. A place where old clothes are sold.
4. n. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5. a. Trifling; contemptible.
6. n. something of little value or significance
7. 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes. Trifling; contemptible.
8. n:100 n something of little value or significance