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noun 
  1. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing
  2. Something trivial
  3. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
  4. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
  5. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French . — Goldsmith.
The gauzy of a French translation. — Sir W. Scott.
  1. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
Frippery (Page: 597) (webster)
Etymology: French friperie, from fruper. See fripper.

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