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  • noun Plural form of frippery.

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Examples

  • "Perhaps she's been hungering for what she calls fripperies," said

    Miss Pat at School Pemberton Ginther

  • I'm old enough to be your father's brother, and I've a daughter older than you, and I'll tog you out in fripperies when we get to Dawson if it takes my last dollar.

    SIWASH 2010

  • I'm old enough to be your father's brother, and I've a daughter older than you, and I'll tog you out in fripperies when we get to

    Siwash 1901

  • I'm old enough to be your father's brother, and I've a daughter older than you, and I'll tog you out in fripperies when we get to

    Siwash 1901

  • Most of all, however, she was wrong about their desire for what she called "fripperies" -- shoes, pretty clothes, and make-up -- which they indulge in now more than ever.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • So, even though the "outrageous advance" strategy is clearly not always working, and not only that butis clearly working less often than it did before people no longer had as much money to buy fripperies such as ghost-written tat, it is still working often enough from the publishers 'perspectivefor the practice to continue.

    Sunday Salon: huge advances will continue Maxine 2009

  • And sometimes Smoke wanted to shout aloud, to chant a paean of savage exultation, as he remembered the office of the Billow and the serial story of San Francisco which he had left unfinished, along with the other fripperies of those empty days.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • He could not take his mind off of her, and a persistent picture came to him of her sitting by a window and sewing feminine fripperies of some sort.

    Chapter XVIII 2010

  • So, even though the "outrageous advance" strategy is clearly not always working, and not only that butis clearly working less often than it did before people no longer had as much money to buy fripperies such as ghost-written tat, it is still working often enough from the publishers 'perspectivefor the practice to continue.

    Sunday Salon: huge advances will continue Maxine 2009

  • So, even though the "outrageous advance" strategy is clearly not always working, and not only that butis clearly working less often than it did before people no longer had as much money to buy fripperies such as ghost-written tat, it is still working often enough from the publishers 'perspectivefor the practice to continue.

    Reading Maxine 2009

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  • "'I had no idea whalebone could be so costly,' said the purser. 'What is it used for?'

    "'Fripperies,' said Allen. 'Milliners' and dressmakers' fripperies: and umbrellas.'"

    --Patrick O'Brian, The Far Side of the World, 108

    February 20, 2008