frippery
frippery is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
- 2.A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
- 3.The trade or traffic in old clothes.
- 4.Trifling; contemptible.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- absurdity
- anticlimax
- awkward
- baroque
- bathos
- bear
- bizarre
- bombast
- bombastic
- buffoonery
- burlesque
- comedy
- comical
- comicality
- commit
- contemptible
- dancing
- derisive
- doggerel
- droll
- drollery
- drollish
- eccentric
- eccentricity
- extravagance
- extravagant
- fanciful
- fantastic
- farce
- farcical
- fool
- from
- fun
- funny
- gimcrack
- grotesque
- heroic
- inflated
- ironical
- laugh
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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