Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who deals in frippery or old clothes.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.

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  • noun obsolete One who deals in frippery or old clothes.

Etymologies

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French fripier, from friper to rumple, fumble, waste.

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  • A dealer in frippery or old clothing.

    June 23, 2015