FRIPPERY

frippery. Frippery, n. a place where botchers of old clother dwell, ob. old clothes, mean words

---

Frip″per‐y (?), n. [[F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.]] 1. 1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson.
2. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith. The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott. 3. 3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
4. 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.