English Dictionary

frippery

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈfɹɪpəɹi/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 廃用

Ostentation, as in fancy clothing. / Useless things; trifles. / (obsolete) Cast-off clothes. / (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes. / (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.

日本語の意味

派手な装飾や見せびらかしを目的とした（服などの）飾り物や装い / 実用性のない小物や無価値なもの、くだらないもの / （古い用法）着なくなった衣服 / （古い用法）古着の取引や流通 / （古い用法）古着を販売する場所

She dismissed his expensive coat and gaudy frippery as an attempt to hide his insecurity.

彼女は彼の高価なコートやけばけばしい虚飾を、彼が不安を隠そうとするための見せかけだと一蹴した。

意味（1）

Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.

意味（2）

Useless things; trifles.

[Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

意味（3）

(obsolete) Cast-off clothes.

If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.

意味（4）

(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

意味（5）

(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.

Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.

意味（6）

Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

There's my pretty darling Kate; the faſhions of the times have almoſt infected her too. By living a year or two in town, ſhe is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the beſt of them.

fripperies （ plural ）