frippery
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Brushing ahead all that geeky frippery, though, and what’s plainest about that scene is how unsettling it is.
From Salon ● Jan. 18, 2025
Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2023
Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 13, 2022
Fans repaid her with a fierce devotion, showing up to her readings in their finest vampiric frippery.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 13, 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
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.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 28, 2025
The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 16, 2022
Thanks to the Erie Canal, New York was booming in 1825 when Stewart invested his small inheritance in lace and other fripperies for women’s clothing.
From New York Times ● Oct. 31, 2019
It is not at all good, but the crucial distinction to make is that its aggressive un-goodness strikes a different timbre than the comparable un-goodness of Franco’s highfalutin literary adaptations or experimental fripperies.
From Slate ● Jun. 6, 2018
“Yes, my husband,” Lady Constance said obediently, rising and gathering the children to her, while her ladies hastily collected embroidery frames, cloaks, and fripperies.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
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