Mary doesn't need all that frippery for a simple visit to church.
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Frippery
//ˈfɹɪpəɹi//
Synonyms for "frippery" (124 found)
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4 translations across 3 languages.
Bulgarian
1 entries- дрънкулки noun (Useless things; trifles)
French
1 entries- oripeaux noun (secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance)
Russian
2 entries- безделушки noun (Useless things; trifles)
- мишура noun (Useless things; trifles)
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Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.
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Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.
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The frippery-filled world of fashion confounded its critics yesterday when it became sombre and serious in the wake of the terrorist attacks in the US.
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