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▪ I. frippery, n.|ˈfrɪpərɪ|
Forms: 6 freprie, fripperie, (7 thripperie), 7 fripery, 7– frippery.
[a. or ad. OF. freperie, ferperie, felperie (Fr. friperie), f. frepe, ferpe, felpe rag.
In all senses, more or less collective.]
†1. Old clothes; cast-off garments. Obs.
1568Satir. Poems Reform. xlviii. 74 Thot it be awld, and twenty tymis sawld, Ȝit will the freprie mak ȝow fane With vlis to renew it and mak it weill hewit. 1606Holland Sueton. 241 Which extendeth also to slaves and old wares or thripperie. 1638Ford Fancies i. iii, Some frippery to hide nakedness. 1700Congreve Way of World iii. v, I'll reduce him to frippery and rags. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 409 An old huge full-bottomed perriwig out of the wardrobe of the antiquated frippery of Louis the Fourteenth. 1824W. Irving T. Trav. I. 199 The old garments and frippery that fluttered from every window.
fig.1638Baker tr. Balzac's Lett. To Rdr. (1654) 3 And makes a great shew of the frippery and brokage of other Authors. 1742H. Walpole Lett. H. Mann (1834) I. xxv. 112 Old Sarah's Memoirs..are nothing but remnants of old women's frippery.
2. Finery in dress, esp. tawdry finery; an example of this, an article of fashionable attire. Also, transf. tawdry ornamentation in general.
1637Sir E. Burke in Dk. of Rutland's MSS. (1888) I. 498 Such a cuning peti larceny of fripery as amazes us all. 1681Crowne Hen VI, i. 10 A little Pinke Laden with toyes and fripperies from France. 1773Goldsm. Stoops to Conq. 1, She is as fond of gauze and French frippery as the best of them. 1833H. Martineau Manch. Strike i. 16, I will..send my wife with a cloak..to hide the child's frippery. 1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax x, With no fripperies or fandangos of any sort. 1864Knight Passages Wrkg. Life I. v. 220 We obtained one of this class of Churches..at a preposterous cost for Bath stone and corresponding frippery.
b. Applied to a showily-dressed person.
1877Black Green Past. iv. (1878) 34 The painted fripperies you meet at every woman's house in London.
c. Articles of small value; trifles.
1803J. Porter Thaddeus xxiv. (1831) 203 Boxes, baskets, and other frippery. 1831E. J. Trelawny Adv. Younger Son II. 241 Modern frippery of combs, razors, brushes [etc.].
d. fig. Empty display, esp. in speech or literary composition; showy talk; ostentation.
1727Swift To Yng. Lady Wks. 1755 II. ii. 47 You will gather more advantage by listening to them, than from all the nonsense and frippery of your own sex. 1764Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 III. 187, I can stay with great patience for anything that comes from Voltaire. They tell me it is frippery, and blasphemy, and wit. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. v. 114 Throwing aside all the fopperies and fripperies of chivalry. 1877Mrs. Oliphant Makers Flor. ix. 237 A noble young gentleman amid all his frippery of courtier and virtuoso.
†3. A place where cast-off clothes are sold. Obs.
1598Florio, Recateria, a fripperie or brokers shop. 1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 225 Oh, ho, Monster; wee know what belongs to a frippery. a1635Corbet Poems (1807) 98 For learning, th' Universitie; And for old clothes, the Frippery. [1830James Darnley xxix. 128/2, I will get the three dresses this very night, from a frippery in Poole Street.]
fig.1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. lvi, Whose Workes are eene the frippery of wit. 1649Owen Serm. Wks. 1851 VIII. 236 Ireland was termed by some in civil things a frippery of bankrupts. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) I. 364 A Frippery of common Places of Pulpit Railing, ill put together.
†4. A stand or horse for dresses, etc.; a wardrobe. Obs.
a1616[see flippery]. 1632Massinger City Madam i. i, He shews like a walking frippery. c1645Sir R. Verney Inv. Claydon in Lady Verney Mem. Verney Fam. I. 6 The little and greate Fripperies, etc.
†5. Trade or traffic in cast-off clothes. Obs.
1599Sandys Europæ Spec. (1632) 131 The Iewes..have generally not any other trades than frippery and usury. 1606Chapman Mons. D'Olive iii. i, D'Ol. Now your profession, I pray? Frip. Fripperie, my Lord, or as some tearme it, Petty Brokery.
6. Tawdry style; frivolity. rare.
1802F. Burney Diary 5 May, His manly air carried off the frippery of his trappings. 1855F. Chamier My Travels I. xviii. 310 The frippery of fashion might not have caused a Roman to strut about with an eye-glass.
7. attrib. and Comb.
c1645Howell Lett. vi. 24 Yet by that base and servile way of Frippery trade, they grow rich. 1744Ess. Acting 18 Macbeth's..Night Gown..ought to be a Red Damask, and not the frippery-flowered one of a Foppington.
Hence ˈfripperied over, pa. pple., showily tricked out.
1858Miss Mulock Thoughts Women 323 Flimsy, light-coloured dresses, fripperied over with trimmings.
▪ II. frippery, a.|ˈfrɪpərɪ|
[developed from the attrib. use of the n.]
Trifling; frivolous; contemptible; trumpery.
a1625Fletcher Chances ii. ii, A frippery cause. 1739Gray Lett. Wks. 1884 II. 49 That city..made so frippery an appearance, that instead of spending some days there..we only dined, and went on to Parma. 1768Foote Devil on 2 Sticks i, In spite of the frippery French Salick laws, a woman is a free agent. 1795Jemima I. 161 His dress..is so frippery. 1844Blackw. Mag. LV. 200 Neither will they be persuaded by the frippery tomes which load the counters. 1859Jephson Brittany v. 55 Numbers of frippery and vulgar ornaments on the table. 18..M. Pattison Mem. ii. (1885) 89 Betake themselves..to the frippery work of attending boards. |