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Meanings of frippery in English
Usage of frippery in English
1
The design calls for strong geometry, strict formality and absolutely no frippery.
2
On his return to his own country, all this frippery is useless.
3
In this case, the company insists it's not all just needless design frippery.
4
The frippery of the island was dropped like the withes which bound Samson.
5
Why not challenge the very necessity for this useless fashion frippery?
6
All frippery and decoration had long been stripped from the army.
7
His selfishness, his vanity, his idleness, his frippery were annulled in the instant.
8
For the time his soul abhorred what seemed to him frippery.
9
But with my will, you shall make no more frippery of the kind.
10
I, thank God, stand outside this more or less melodic frippery.
11
What has a herd boy like thee to do with roses and frippery?
12
If only he had left his purple coat and gold frippery in Constantinople!
13
He has gone out of her life like yesterday's sunshine or yesterday's frippery.
14
Even so frippery a fellow as Scrope must apprehend the gravity of the case.
15
But Ab Fab platitudes aside, fashion is no mere frippery.
16
Unlike the pampered people around him, Willem wore serviceable clothes without lace or frippery.
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