frippery Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun something of little value or significance
    fluff; bagatelle; frivolity.

WordNet

Frip"per*y noun
Etymology
F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.
Definitions
  1. Coast-off clothes. Obs. B. Jonson.
  2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
    Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith.
    The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.
  3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
  4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frip"per*y adjective
Definitions
  1. Trifling; contemptible.

Webster 1913