frippery

Example Sentences

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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

Yet in the end, amid all the fun and frippery, the one garment that most lingered was perhaps the least elaborate, least formal of all: the T-shirt worn by Billie Eilish for her performance.

From New York Times • Apr. 4, 2022

In the last act, Wagner removes all the frippery, with just three characters and their own personal stories.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 25, 2021

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