fripperyn.

Brit.

/ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/, U.S.

/ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/

Forms: 1500s freprie, fripperie, (1600s thripperie), 1600s fripery, 1600s– frippery.

Etymology: < Old French freperie, ferperie, felperie (French friperie), < frepe, ferpe, felpe rag.

In all senses, more or less collective.

†1. Old clothes; cast-off garments. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > old

frippery1568

old clo'1844

1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 74 Tho^t it be awld, and twenty tymis sawld, Ȝit will the freprie mak ȝow fane With vlis to renew it and mak it weill hewit.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 241 Which extendeth also to slaves and old wares or thripperie.

1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 12 Some frippery to hide naked nesse.

1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 35 I'll reduce him to Frippery and Rags.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 334 An old huge full-bottomed perriwig out of the wardrobe of the antiquated frippery of Louis XIV.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 199 The old garments and frippery that fluttered from every window.

figurative.1639 F. B. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Coll. Mod. Epist. IV. sig. A4 And makes a great shew with the frippery & brokage of other Authors.1742 H. Walpole Let. 10 Mar. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 106 Old Sarah's Memoirs..are nothing but remnants of old women's frippery.

a. Finery in dress, esp. tawdry finery; an example of this, an article of fashionable attire. Also, transferred tawdry ornamentation in general.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > fine, splendid, or ornamental

quaintise1340

quaintries1484

tricking1549

bravery1563

flaunt1590

puppetry1598

frippery1637

finery1647

gentricec1650

hufty-tuftya1652

prinkum-prankum1683

fegary1724

chiffons1888

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy

bawdrya1529

bravery1563

fangle1583

flaunt1590

gaudery1597

trumperya1616

ginger-work1631

frippery1637

finery1647

tawdrya1680

tawdrum1680

tinsey1685

flappet1728

gingerbread work1748

tinsel1782

fallalery1824

tinselry1830

figgery1841

flaring1881

1637 in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm. App. Pt. IV: MSS Duke of Rutland (1888) I. 498 in Parl. Papers (C. 5614) LXIV. 1 Such a cuning peti larceny of fripery hear as amazes us all.

1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. i. 10 A little Pinke Laden with Toyes and Fripperies from France.

1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 5 She is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the best of them.

1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) i. 16 I will..send my wife with a cloak..to hide the child's frippery.

1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. x. 216 With no fripperies or fandangos of any sort.

1864 C. Knight Passages Working 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.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who is showily or fancily dressed

jibby-horse1601

frippery1877

1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. iv. 68 The painted fripperies you meet at every woman's house in London.

c. Articles of small value; trifles.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth > collectively

truck1785

frippery1803

manavilins1841

1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) xxiv. 203 Boxes, baskets, and other frippery.

1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 241 Modern frippery of combs, razors, brushes [etc.].

d. figurative. Empty display, esp. in speech or literary composition; showy talk; ostentation.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > showiness or ostentation

flashiness1709

frippery1727

gauziness1827

1727 J. Swift Let. to very Young Lady in Misc. II. 331 You will gather more advantage by list'ning to them, than from all the nonsense and frippery of your own Sex.

1765 T. Gray Let. 17 Jan. in Corr. (1971) II. 859 I can stay with great patience for anything that comes from Voltaire: they tell me it is frippery & blasphemy & wit.

1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. v. 114 Throwing aside all the fopperies and fripperies of chivalry.

1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) ix. 237 A noble young gentleman amid all his frippery of courtier and virtuoso.

†3. A place where cast-off clothes are sold. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories > second-hand

frippery1598

flipperya1625

rag shop1674

old clothes shop1729

rag store1849

tagarene shop1855

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Recateria, a fripperie or brokers shop.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 225 Oh, ho, Monster: wee know what belongs to a frippery .

a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 98 For learning, th' Universitie; And for old clothes, the Frippery.

1830 G. P. R. James Darnley III. ii. 33 I will get the three dresses this very night, from a frippery in Pool-street.]

figurative.1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lvi, in Wks. I. 783 Whose workes are eene the fripperie of wit.1649 J. Owen Serm. in Wks. (1851) VIII. 236 Ireland was termed by some in civil things a frippery of bankrupts.a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 364 A Frippery of common Places of Pulpit Railing, ill put together.

†4. A stand or horse for dresses, etc.; a wardrobe. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > rack for

fripperya1625

portmanteau1728

clothes-rack1857

rack1889

valet1942

a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. D3^v If I be brought..to carry..any gentle Lady of the Laundry..behinde my gelding, with all her streamers, knapsacks, glasses, Gugawes, as if I were a running flippery [Dyce prints frippery].

a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 106 He shews like a walking fripperie.

c1645 Sir 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in specific textiles

frippery1599

woolage1611

mercership1647

(the) Mercery1662

rag trade1745

hosiery1789

grey market1825

narrow-trade1827

costumer1830

linendrapery1849

wool-stapling1888

broad trade-

1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 131 The Iewes..have generally not any other trades than frippery and usury.

1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue 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.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > tawdriness

tawdriness1670

frippery1802

tattiness1952

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness

nugationc1450

nugacity1593

fiddling1622

frivolousnessa1631

nugality1676

futility1692

futileness1727

flippancy1746

frivolity1796

nugatoriness1853

frippery1855

fiddle1874

fribble1881

frivolling1882

fribblery1889

trifledom1903

1802 F. Burney Diary 5 May His manly air carried off the frippery of his trappings.

1855 F. Chamier My Trav. I. xviii. 310 The frippery of fashion might not have caused a Roman to strut about with an eye-glass.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations.

ΚΠ

1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xiv. 24 Yet by that base and servile way of Frippery trade, they grow rich.

1744 D. Garrick Ess. Acting 18 Macbeth's..Night Gown..ought to be a Red Damask, and not the frippery-flowered one of a Foppington.

Derivatives

ˈfripperied over adj. showily tricked out.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > cheaply or gaudily ornamented

tawdry1676

tinselled1738

fripperied over1858

bedaubed1863

tarted1958

1858 D. M. Mulock Woman's Thoughts about Women 323 Flimsy, light-coloured dresses, fripperied over with trimmings.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	frippery
释义	fripperyn. Brit. /ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/ Forms: 1500s freprie, fripperie, (1600s thripperie), 1600s fripery, 1600s– frippery. Etymology: < Old French freperie, ferperie, felperie (French friperie), < frepe, ferpe, felpe rag. In all senses, more or less collective. †1. Old clothes; cast-off garments. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > old frippery1568 old clo'1844 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlviii. 74 Tho^t it be awld, and twenty tymis sawld, Ȝit will the freprie mak ȝow fane With vlis to renew it and mak it weill hewit. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 241 Which extendeth also to slaves and old wares or thripperie. 1638 J. Ford Fancies i. 12 Some frippery to hide naked nesse. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 35 I'll reduce him to Frippery and Rags. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 334 An old huge full-bottomed perriwig out of the wardrobe of the antiquated frippery of Louis XIV. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 199 The old garments and frippery that fluttered from every window. figurative.1639 F. B. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Coll. Mod. Epist. IV. sig. A4 And makes a great shew with the frippery & brokage of other Authors.1742 H. Walpole Let. 10 Mar. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) I. 106 Old Sarah's Memoirs..are nothing but remnants of old women's frippery. 2. a. Finery in dress, esp. tawdry finery; an example of this, an article of fashionable attire. Also, transferred tawdry ornamentation in general. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > fine, splendid, or ornamental quaintise1340 quaintries1484 tricking1549 bravery1563 flaunt1590 puppetry1598 frippery1637 finery1647 gentricec1650 hufty-tuftya1652 prinkum-prankum1683 fegary1724 chiffons1888 the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [noun] > cheap or gaudy bawdrya1529 bravery1563 fangle1583 flaunt1590 gaudery1597 trumperya1616 ginger-work1631 frippery1637 finery1647 tawdrya1680 tawdrum1680 tinsey1685 flappet1728 gingerbread work1748 tinsel1782 fallalery1824 tinselry1830 figgery1841 flaring1881 1637 in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm. App. Pt. IV: MSS Duke of Rutland (1888) I. 498 in Parl. Papers (C. 5614) LXIV. 1 Such a cuning peti larceny of fripery hear as amazes us all. 1681 J. Crowne Henry VI i. i. 10 A little Pinke Laden with Toyes and Fripperies from France. 1773 O. Goldsmith She stoops to Conquer i. 5 She is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the best of them. 1833 H. Martineau Manch. Strike (new ed.) i. 16 I will..send my wife with a cloak..to hide the child's frippery. 1856 D. M. Mulock John Halifax I. x. 216 With no fripperies or fandangos of any sort. 1864 C. Knight Passages Working 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. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > one who is showily or fancily dressed jibby-horse1601 frippery1877 1877 W. Black Green Pastures & Piccadilly I. iv. 68 The painted fripperies you meet at every woman's house in London. c. Articles of small value; trifles. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > that which is unimportant > of little worth > collectively truck1785 frippery1803 manavilins1841 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1831) xxiv. 203 Boxes, baskets, and other frippery. 1831 E. J. Trelawny Adventures Younger Son II. 241 Modern frippery of combs, razors, brushes [etc.]. d. figurative. Empty display, esp. in speech or literary composition; showy talk; ostentation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > ornateness > [noun] > showiness or ostentation flashiness1709 frippery1727 gauziness1827 1727 J. Swift Let. to very Young Lady in Misc. II. 331 You will gather more advantage by list'ning to them, than from all the nonsense and frippery of your own Sex. 1765 T. Gray Let. 17 Jan. in Corr. (1971) II. 859 I can stay with great patience for anything that comes from Voltaire: they tell me it is frippery & blasphemy & wit. 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 1st Ser. v. 114 Throwing aside all the fopperies and fripperies of chivalry. 1877 M. Oliphant Makers of Florence (ed. 2) ix. 237 A noble young gentleman amid all his frippery of courtier and virtuoso. †3. A place where cast-off clothes are sold. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shops selling clothes, cloth, or accessories > second-hand frippery1598 flipperya1625 rag shop1674 old clothes shop1729 rag store1849 tagarene shop1855 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Recateria, a fripperie or brokers shop. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 225 Oh, ho, Monster: wee know what belongs to a frippery . View more context for this quotation a1635 R. Corbet Poems (1807) 98 For learning, th' Universitie; And for old clothes, the Frippery. 1830 G. P. R. James Darnley III. ii. 33 I will get the three dresses this very night, from a frippery in Pool-street.] figurative.1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes lvi, in Wks. I. 783 Whose workes are eene the fripperie of wit.1649 J. Owen Serm. in Wks. (1851) VIII. 236 Ireland was termed by some in civil things a frippery of bankrupts.a1680 S. Butler Genuine Remains (1759) I. 364 A Frippery of common Places of Pulpit Railing, ill put together. †4. A stand or horse for dresses, etc.; a wardrobe. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] > rack for fripperya1625 portmanteau1728 clothes-rack1857 rack1889 valet1942 a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. D3^v If I be brought..to carry..any gentle Lady of the Laundry..behinde my gelding, with all her streamers, knapsacks, glasses, Gugawes, as if I were a running flippery [Dyce prints frippery]. a1640 P. Massinger City-Madam (1658) i. i. 106 He shews like a walking fripperie. c1645 Sir 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > specific types of trade > [noun] > trade in specific textiles frippery1599 woolage1611 mercership1647 (the) Mercery1662 rag trade1745 hosiery1789 grey market1825 narrow-trade1827 costumer1830 linendrapery1849 wool-stapling1888 broad trade- 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 131 The Iewes..have generally not any other trades than frippery and usury. 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue 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. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > flashiness or gaudiness > [noun] > tawdriness tawdriness1670 frippery1802 tattiness1952 the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > emptiness or insubstantiality > frivolity or lack of seriousness nugationc1450 nugacity1593 fiddling1622 frivolousnessa1631 nugality1676 futility1692 futileness1727 flippancy1746 frivolity1796 nugatoriness1853 frippery1855 fiddle1874 fribble1881 frivolling1882 fribblery1889 trifledom1903 1802 F. Burney Diary 5 May His manly air carried off the frippery of his trappings. 1855 F. Chamier My Trav. I. xviii. 310 The frippery of fashion might not have caused a Roman to strut about with an eye-glass. Compounds attributive and in other combinations. ΚΠ 1645 J. Howell Epistolæ Ho-elianæ vi. xiv. 24 Yet by that base and servile way of Frippery trade, they grow rich. 1744 D. Garrick Ess. Acting 18 Macbeth's..Night Gown..ought to be a Red Damask, and not the frippery-flowered one of a Foppington. Derivatives ˈfripperied over adj. showily tricked out. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > [adjective] > cheaply or gaudily ornamented tawdry1676 tinselled1738 fripperied over1858 bedaubed1863 tarted1958 1858 D. M. Mulock Woman's Thoughts about Women 323 Flimsy, light-coloured dresses, fripperied over with trimmings. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online June 2022). fripperyadj. Brit. /ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/, U.S. /ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/ Etymology: developed from the attributive use of the noun. Trifling; frivolous; contemptible; trumpery. ΘΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [adjective] > insubstantial > showy or fanciful but insubstantial frivol1492 fustian1523 triflinga1538 tirlery1546 trumpery1576 mockado1577 skipjack1597 flashy1598 trifle1607 fripperya1625 bagatelle1637 fingle-fangled1651 tawdry1696 sauntering1726 gimcrack1751 folderol1820 tin1886 shicec1890 cotton candy1951 candyfloss1957 a1625 J. Fletcher Chances ii. ii, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Aaa4/2 A frippery cause. 1739 T. Gray Let. 9 Dec. in Corr. (1971) I. 132 That city..made so frippery an appearance, that instead of spending some days there..we only dined, and went on to Parma. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) i. 3 In spite of the frippery French Salick laws, woman is a free agent. 1795 A. Hughes Jemima I. 161 His dress..is so frippery. 1844 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 55 200 Neither will they be persuaded by the frippery tomes which load the counters. 1859 J. M. Jephson & L. Reeve Narr. Walking Tour Brittany v. 55 Numbers of frippery and vulgar ornaments on the table. 18.. M. Pattison Mem. (1885) ii. 89 Betake themselves..to the frippery work of attending boards. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1568adj.a1625
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fripperyn.

Compounds

Derivatives

fripperyadj.