frippery / ˈfrɪp ə ri /

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frippery 的定义

n. 名词 noun

plural frip·per·ies.

  1. finery in dress, especially when showy, gaudy, or the like.
  2. empty display; ostentation.
  3. gewgaws; trifles.

frippery 近义词

n. 名词 noun

waste, nonsense

更多frippery例句

  1. Yes you can function without them, but this is like refusing to use a gas stove because thermostats are just modern frippery.
  2. That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy.
  3. In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away.
  4. It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church.
  5. It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.
  6. The millener gathered up her frippery, and put them into a band-box; telling her, she would wait on her ladyship again.