Associations to the word «Frippery»

Wiktionary

FRIPPERY, noun. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
FRIPPERY, noun. Useless things; trifles.
FRIPPERY, noun. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
FRIPPERY, noun. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
FRIPPERY, noun. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
FRIPPERY, noun. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Dictionary definition

FRIPPERY, noun. Something of little value or significance.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope