frippery

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I wrote that song as a frippery, and simply as a stand-alone song outwith any grand spectacular spectacular context.

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  1. noun Pretentious, showy finery.
  2. noun Pretentious elegance; ostentation.
  3. noun Something trivial or nonessential.

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  • I wrote that song as a frippery, and simply as a stand-alone song outwith any grand spectacular spectacular context. —  Notes From The Geek Show
  • Rhythm Tap is probably the most obvious application for Let's Tap's finger-based frippery, offering Donkey Konga-style side-scrolling rhythm action for up to four players. —  IGN Complete
  • Stark-white, hand-made paper, a dry, pressed flower; no ribbony, frippery, girly-girly thing, that ain't Lis style. —  GUYANA
  • 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
  • The developer knows that for most serious Disgaea players, graphical frippery is a barrier to the game's true first fruits: intelligent levelling, long-view planning and red hot XXX stat porn. —  Eurogamer
 

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frippery:   fripperies
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Etymologies (2)

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  1. French friperie, from Old French freperie, old clothes, from felpe, frepe, from Medieval Latin faluppa, worthless material.

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  1. from Old French friperie, French friperie, an old-clothes shop, fripper's trade, old clothes, frippery, from fripier, fripper: see fripper.
 

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/ˈfrɪpəri/
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