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
The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2024
Fans repaid her with a fierce devotion, showing up to her readings in their finest vampiric frippery.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 2021
She refuses to treat them as frippery or dainty delicacies: “They can be the main ingredient.”
From New York Times ● Sep. 6, 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
“Goon Squad” employed a number of narrative fripperies.
From New York Times ● Mar. 29, 2022
It's been a long time since I've addressed friends and dinner parties and crystal fripperies in some other context than their abrupt cancellation.
From Washington Post ● May 16, 2021
It is not at all good, but the crucial distinction to make is that its aggressive un-goodness strikes a different timbre than the comparable un-goodness of Franco’s highfalutin literary adaptations or experimental fripperies.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2018
“And we could reserve space to sell paintings, and combs, and fripperies from France.”
From "Fever 1793" by Laurie Halse Anderson
Vocabulary lists containing frippery
The Witch of Blackbird Pond
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The Devil in the White City
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