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frippery
noun as in waste, nonsense
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No one in the film comments on any of the frippery.
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Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.
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The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.
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Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.
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The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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