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  1. 1. n. Coast-off clothes. Source: opted
  2. 2. n. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. Source: opted
  3. 3. n. A place where old clothes are sold. Source: opted
  4. 4. n. The trade or traffic in old clothes. Source: opted
  5. 5. a. Trifling; contemptible. Source: opted
  6. 6. n. something of little value or significance Source: wordnet
  7. 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. Source: webster
  8. 8. n:100 n something of little value or significance Source: ecdict

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