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frippery

Noun

frippery

  1. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
  2. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
  3. 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.
  4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

Frippery (Page: 597)

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8 letters in word "frippery": E F I P P R R Y.

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