frippery meaning

Noun: frippery  fripuree

1. Something of little value or significance
   - bagatelle, fluff, frivolity

Derived forms: fripperies

Type of: small beer, trifle, trivia, triviality

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1. affections of manner and speech are mere frippery
2. she often wears ornaments of frippery
3. the appeal of such fripperies palls faster than people expect, they say
4. where drugs to change personality traits were once seen as medicinal fripperies, or enhancements, they are now seen as entitlements
5. and as bryan caplan, of george mason university, points out, many trinkets and fripperies themselves provide a stream of experiences