Defn: One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
I'll frippery the villain; I'll reduce him to fripperyand rags, a tatterdemalion!
Do but figure her; her dress had all the tawdry poverty and fripperywith which you remember her, and I dare swear her tympany, scarce covered with ticking, produced itself through the slit of her scowered damask robe.
I have but frippery news to tell you; no politics; for the rudiments of a war, that is not to be a war, are not worth detailing.
All frippery is subject to changes of taste and fashion.
I could live alone while laboring for my daily bread, but not as the mistress of a castle and surrounded by the trifles and frippery of the fashionable world.
It may be, child, for anything that I know; because I do not know what part of all this frippery thy pompon is.
It was a dull mansion of brick, which had disdained the frippery of paint and whitewashing, and had indeed been built many years previously to the erection of the modern habitations which surrounded it.
Clarence, with a smile at the frippery of his compliment.
And, Cousin Andrew, I have saved some money that my brother gave me to buy frippery and sweetmeats with.
The unknown fair one, seated in front of a dressing-table blazing with wax lights, was unfastening her frippery with the utmost calmness.
Nor is it superfluous to mention that he is more responsible than any other person for the intolerable frippery of classical mythology which loads eighteenth-century verse.
This Green Arbour court I found to be a small square of tall and Miserable houses, the very intestines of which seemed turned inside out, to judge from the old garments and frippery that fluttered from every window.
Trunks were turned inside out, and all the finery and the frippery of the Popkins family scattered about the road.
He looked like one who goes forth a-wooing, in all the gay fripperysupposed to be pleasing in a maiden's eyes.
Now here," he said, "is frippery of a superior description; frippery enough to delight the hearts of a dozen women.
In this last the face is like a mask, so frightful is the expression of cold craft, irritated, vanity, and the malice of a lonely breast in contrast with the attitude and elaborate frippery of the dress.
How pleasant it was to sit and hear rough men tell pieces out of their own common lives, in place of the fripperytalk of some fine circle with its conventional sentiment, and timid, second-hand criticism.
Bag-fair' is a place near the Tower of London, where old clothes and frippery are sold--P.
His first aim is to adorn his own person with what he calls fine cloaths, that is the frippery of the fashion.
On his return to his own country, all this frippery is useless.
Under the name of Valentine Frippery he answered his own attack with a bitter reply, taking up the cudgels stoutly on behalf of the attackees, and wound up his article by riddling all men of the Frippery type.
Now, I want to get them acquainted; not with the frippery people who would have nothing to do with them, but with some of our real splendid boys and girls who will enjoy helping them.
It was simply the habit of being frippery with the ladies that made his words seem so foolish to Flossy.
At last it became insupportable to them that Wenzeslaus, by whose shop many Jews had daily to pass to their frippery market, should publicly set up in it the image of the crucified Saviour, and every Friday keep a burning lamp before it.
I Would ask why Mr. Chute has left me off but when he sees what a frippery correspondent I am, he will scarce be in haste to renew with me again.
Let but a sock, an old handkercher, the greasy lining of a masque, or any such frippery piece of business be missing, ask the gouvernante for this, or for that.
I saw some very pretty girls dancing merrily that old-fashioned thing called a country-dance which Old England has now thrown aside, as she would do her creed, if there were some foreign frippery offered instead.
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