frippery

noun fripperies

1. countable, uncountable Ostentation, as in fancy clothing. Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster’s daughter.
2. countable, uncountable Useless things; trifles. [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
3. countable, obsolete, uncountable Cast-off clothes. If thou doſt, come ouer, and but ſee our fripperie: change an olde ſhirt, for a whole ſmocke, with vs.
4. countable, obsolete, uncountable The trade or traffic in old clothes.
5. countable, obsolete, uncountable The place where old clothes are sold. Oh, ho, Monſter: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano.
6. countable, uncountable Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. There's my pretty darling Kate; the faſhions of the times have almoſt infected her too. By living a year or two in town, ſhe is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the beſt of them.