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Meanings of frippery in inglés
Synonyms
Examples for "fluff"
Examples for "fluff"
1
The Company's cellulose fibers product portfolio includes fluff, market and specialty pulps.
2
No permanent space means there's no place for postcards or personal fluff.
3
Let me trim out all the fluff and get to work, already!
4
Sunrise disclosed the world trimmed from horizon to horizon in fairy fluff.
5
You think I am being dramatic, building fluff when there isn't any.
1
I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
2
From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
3
Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
4
Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
5
The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
1
She opened the dining-room door, and found the bagatelle-board on the table.
2
He pressed a second spring, and a bagatelle-table appeared in the same fashion.
3
The cut is a bagatelle, monsieur, and I must to the road again.
4
Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less.
5
To me the sum seemed immense, but he regarded it as a bagatelle.
Usage of frippery in inglés
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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