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frippery

/frip-uh-ree/US // ˈfrɪp ə ri //UK // (ˈfrɪpərɪ) //

花花公子,花巧,花边新闻,花边

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural frip·per·ies.

    • : finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
    • : empty display; ostentation.
    • : gewgaws; trifles.

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Examples

  • Yes you can function without them, but this is like refusing to use a gas stove because thermostats are just modern frippery.

  • That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy.

  • In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away.

  • It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church.

  • It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.

  • The millener gathered up her frippery, and put them into a band-box; telling her, she would wait on her ladyship again.