frippery

Example Sentences

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No one in the film comments on any of the frippery.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 27, 2025

Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2025

On the one hand: the stuff of fantasy and frippery; on the other, feeds and headlines filled with threat and fear.

From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2022

Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .

From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021

He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.”

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson