Frip"per*y (?), n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]
1.
Cast-off clothes.
[Obs.]
B. Jonson.
2.
Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery.
Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French translation.
Sir W. Scott.
3.
A place where old clothes are sold.
Shak.
4.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.
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Frip"per*y (?), a.
Trifling; contemptible.
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