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Meanings of frippery in inglés

portugués
bagatela

Something of little value or significance.

        bagatela
        Usage of frippery in inglés
        1
        The design calls for strong geometry, strict formality and absolutely no frippery.
        The Irish Times
        2
        On his return to his own country, all this frippery is useless.
        Travels through France and Italy
        3
        In this case, the company insists it's not all just needless design frippery.
        Wired
        4
        The frippery of the island was dropped like the withes which bound Samson.
        The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen / From "Mackinac And Lake Sto...
        5
        Why not challenge the very necessity for this useless fashion frippery?
        The Irish Times
        6
        All frippery and decoration had long been stripped from the army.
        Mohun; Or, the Last Days of Lee and His Paladins. / Final Memoir...
        7
        His selfishness, his vanity, his idleness, his frippery were annulled in the instant.
        The Frontiersmen
        8
        For the time his soul abhorred what seemed to him frippery.
        The Workingman's Paradise: An Australian Labour Novel
        9
        But with my will, you shall make no more frippery of the kind.
        Mr. Hogarth's Will
        10
        I, thank God, stand outside this more or less melodic frippery.
        Gambara
        11
        What has a herd boy like thee to do with roses and frippery?
        The Herd Boy and His Hermit
        12
        If only he had left his purple coat and gold frippery in Constantinople!
        The Bride of the Nile — Volume 01
        13
        He has gone out of her life like yesterday's sunshine or yesterday's frippery.
        The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel
        14
        Even so frippery a fellow as Scrope must apprehend the gravity of the case.
        Jane and the madness of lord byron: being a jane austen mystery
        15
        But Ab Fab platitudes aside, fashion is no mere frippery.
        The Guardian
        16
        Unlike the pampered people around him, Willem wore serviceable clothes without lace or frippery.
        Navigators of Dune
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        bagatela
        Frippery through the time
        Frippery across language varieties
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