frippery

How to use frippery in a sentence

With no frills and no production frippery, Knifepoint’s effectiveness derives partly from its minimalism.

That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy.

In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away.

AUDREYMARY JOHNSTON

It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church.

It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.

THACKERAYANAWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The millener gathered up her frippery, and put them into a band-box; telling her, she would wait on her ladyship again.

It was L-shaped, with numerous irregularities of plan, and entirely without frippery of applied ornament.

WILLIAM MORRISELIZABETH LUTHER CARY

He looked like one who goes forth a-wooing, in all the gay frippery supposed to be pleasing in a maiden's eyes.

I know all about his breeding—by Stormcloud out of Frippery—but he never ran to his breeding before.

OLD MAN CURRYCHARLES E. (CHARLES EMMETT) VAN LOAN

Not like our Tuscan ones; wretched things, mainly tinsel and shabby frippery.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985