frippery.
Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Meaning & usage
Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Useless things; trifles.
Cast-off clothes.
The trade or traffic in old clothes.
The place where old clothes are sold.
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Where this word comes from
From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.
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