frippery

• “Gloves, an Ell or two of Muslin or figured Lawn, and as a little of what you call frippery is very necessary towards looking like the rest of the world, Nabby would have me add, a few yard of Black or”

  Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 1 May 1780

• “In San Francisco, Tim meets Jay, calls his frippery-based collection the equivalent of”

  Queer Sighted

• “Ignore the insanely complex and expensive parallelogram-hinged door frippery, which is strictly concept; the car does provide some design clues.”

  Advance auto zone blog about fast cars and auto trader

• “Miss Roberts never could stand what she called 'frippery' in dress or hair style.”

  Summer Term At St Clare's

• “The three gorgeously caparisoned chamberlains, who had inducted me to the shelter, laid before me changes of raiment bedecked with every imaginable kind of frippery, and would have me transform myself into a popinjay in fashion like their own.”

  The Lost Continent

• “All this kind of frippery smacks of the boarding school, the pirouette, and the dancing master, and is out of character for the farm, or the sensible retirement of the country.”

  Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings

• “Joe's favorite word is "frippery," which he likes because it sounds funny and not because he's found a way to work it into conversation.”

  IndyStar.com Top Stories

• “There's a solid, if unremarkable racing game buried underneath all this pointless frippery and camera-wobbling, but it's one that fails to provide either the dogged authenticity of Gran Turismo 5 or the balls-to-the-wall rush of Blur or Need For Speed: Hot Pursuit.”

  The Guardian: This week's new games

• “But such frippery doesn't seem to sink to the level of even a Dis-Honorable Mention, in our humble opinion.”

  The Huffington Post: Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points -- Budget Standoff Continues

• “Cars like the Subaru Impreza WRX and Mazda's hatchbacks are loved for their rough-and-tumble rally personalities, not for interior frippery or extra design cues.”

  Forbes: The Fastest Cars Under $30,000

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