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

Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 13, 2022

To illustrate this, Ford has interpreted the idea of “battle” literally: the mannequins, in all their gorgeous chiffons and fringed and fan-pleated frippery are fencing and flying through the air karate-chopping each other.

From New York Times • May 6, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Mar. 29, 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