frippery
Example Sentences
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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.
No one in the film comments on any of the frippery.
From Los Angeles Times
Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.
From Salon
The more stylized approaches of traditional “Streetcar” revivals aren’t just frippery.
From Los Angeles Times
Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
