What is the meaning of Frippery?

  • (n.) A place where old clothes are sold.
  • (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
  • (a.) Trifling; contemptible.
  • (n.) Coast-off clothes.
  • (n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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