frippery
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Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
She was not a hostage to the glamour and the grandeur and the frippery.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 29, 2022
In the last act, Wagner removes all the frippery, with just three characters and their own personal stories.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 25, 2021
He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
That’s what the fashion historian James Laver named the period during and immediately following the French Revolution, which made wearing aristocratic fripperies both dangerous and passé.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
The impression, as usual with him, was of an artist who dispenses with formalities and fripperies to focus — with relaxation but also intense seriousness — on the music.
From New York Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
Do the patriotic fripperies of Independence Day feel a little off this year, or is it just me?
From Slate ● Jun. 30, 2017
They are fripperies to the soul of man.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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