Uttal
US
Ordet hittades på dessa språk:
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| Substantiv |
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Definitioner
Substantiv
- Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
- Useless things; trifles.
- (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
- (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
- (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
- Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Exempel
- [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
- [Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.
- Yet, if thou dost, come over, and but see our frippery; change an old shirt for a whole smock with us...
- O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery.
- Fond of gauze and French frippery. — Oliver Goldsmith.
- The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.
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