frippery
Example Sentences
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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
To illustrate this, Ford has interpreted the idea of “battle” literally: the mannequins, in all their gorgeous chiffons and fringed and fan-pleated frippery are fencing and flying through the air karate-chopping each other.
From New York Times • May 6, 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
Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 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
Vocabulary lists containing frippery
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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The Devil in the White City
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