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Meanings of frippery in inglês

português
bagatela

Something of little value or significance.

        bagatela
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        Examples for "fluff"
        Examples for "fluff"
        1
        The Company's cellulose fibers product portfolio includes fluff, market and specialty pulps.
        Reuters
        2
        No permanent space means there's no place for postcards or personal fluff.
        The Guardian
        3
        Let me trim out all the fluff and get to work, already!
        Wired
        4
        Sunrise disclosed the world trimmed from horizon to horizon in fairy fluff.
        O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920
        5
        You think I am being dramatic, building fluff when there isn't any.
        Wired
        1
        I am happy to relate that it proved a very popular frivolity.
        The Irish Times
        2
        From the depths of tenderness she passed to the shallows of frivolity.
        The Black Robe
        3
        Naughtiness and frivolity are different, and I was always deeply in earnest.
        Margot Asquith, an Autobiography - Two Volumes in One
        4
        Certain elements at the talks did not participate, being against such frivolity.
        The Irish Times
        5
        The count and I have but little time to give to frivolity.
        Castle Craneycrow
        1
        She opened the dining-room door, and found the bagatelle-board on the table.
        Jezebel's Daughter
        2
        He pressed a second spring, and a bagatelle-table appeared in the same fashion.
        The Doings of Raffles Haw
        3
        The cut is a bagatelle, monsieur, and I must to the road again.
        For The Admiral
        4
        Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less.
        The Amateur Cracksman
        5
        To me the sum seemed immense, but he regarded it as a bagatelle.
        The Quest of the Simple Life
        Usage of frippery in inglês
        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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        português
        bagatela
        Frippery through the time
        Frippery across language varieties
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