Frippery
- a. Trifling; contemptible.
- n. Coast-off clothes.
- n. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
- n. A place where old clothes are sold.
- n. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.