Miss Roberts never could stand what she called 'frippery' in dress or hair style. From Wordnik.com. [Summer Term At St Clare's]
Joe's favorite word is "frippery," which he likes because it sounds funny and not because he's found a way to work it into conversation. From Wordnik.com. [IndyStar.com Top Stories] Reference
For the time his soul abhorred what seemed to him frippery. From Wordnik.com. [The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel] Reference
‘And then all the frippery would be thrown away upon me.’. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
"My mother's place," Simmons said, gesturing at the frippery. From Wordnik.com. [The Delicate Storm]
On his return to his own country, all this frippery is useless. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
I particularly liked this "Black is white, up is down" frippery. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: By Double-Digits, More Say Obama Is Best Able To Address Financial Meltdown] Reference
Some figure-skating fans say they'd prefer to see less frippery. From Wordnik.com. [Sequins? What Sequins? Canada's New Spin on Triple Loops] Reference
Madame Savain had laid on, at intervals, some ridiculous frippery. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
'Nope-I s'posed Doctor Joan Janowick would be above such frippery.'. From Wordnik.com. [Masters Of The Vortex]
• For there will be no time for frippery in this the time of crisis. From Wordnik.com. [Diary] Reference
At nightfall the royal ladies began to arrive in all their frippery and high fashion. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
Lady Emily! with all the tawdry frippery, and finery of dress and demeanour — compare. From Wordnik.com. [The Purcell Papers] Reference
“Half a million dollars gone up in frippery and flowers,” wrote one bitter observer. From Wordnik.com. [Long Before the Hilton Era, When Astors Roamed the Earth] Reference
You know what a handsome young man he must be now, and full of French style and frippery. From Wordnik.com. [Springhaven] Reference
It is not indeed the making of necessaries that weakens the mind; but the frippery of dress. From Wordnik.com. [A Vindication of the Rights of Woman] Reference
And in England, where you come from, there's frippery and concerts and such like, so I hear. From Wordnik.com. [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]
Fancy articles for dress, table luxuries and frippery of all sorts came now into great demand. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
But with her breasts and slim waist, she did not need any of the frippery that most women wore. From Wordnik.com. [Dangerous Lady]
By living a year or two in town, she is as fond of gauze and French frippery as the best of them. From Wordnik.com. [She Stoops to Conquer] Reference
His first aim is to adorn his own person with what he calls fine cloaths, that is the frippery of the fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
This dress, I must own, pleases me far beyond the boots, cockades, and other frippery, of many of our students. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in England in 1782] Reference
Given free rein to indulge her taste for frills and frippery, Rhoslyn had let no decorative opportunity go unexplored. From Wordnik.com. [Ill Met By Moonlight]
The women of the city were too busy now to care for society and its frippery; the new objects of life filled every hour. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
That sort of affectation is, if possible, even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy or dude. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
She would be extra dolled up today because of their plan, the rest of her beads and frippery packed for Syracuse and points south. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
They wear enormous shoes, large, awkward, and heavy, made of the very thickest leather, and adorned with the eternal red frippery. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Right up to the door, and never mind the frippery they've got all over the place -- have your adjutant tell them to bill us for damage. From Wordnik.com. [First Lensman]
He never has a conventional image, and never resorts to the second-hand frippery of a poetical commonplace-book to tag his verses with. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference
The man who revived the Bat-franchise and saved it from nipple-suited frippery receives visitors in the Garage, his filmmaking sanctum. From Wordnik.com. [Dark Knight Director Shuns Digital Effects For the Real Thing] Reference
This event is for the no-frills dog lover who fed up with the frippery that has come to dominate the perception of the modern pet parent. From Wordnik.com. [Wendy Diamond: Real Dogs Eat Meat: An Interview With Taye Diggs] Reference
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