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

She was not a hostage to the glamour and the grandeur and the frippery.

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 2022

There was no frippery and almost no decoration, save armloads of gold and silver bangles that seemed as much like armor as jewelry.

From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022

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