Definition of "frippery" in English

noun

1. Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

2. Useless things; trifles.

   • [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

3. (obsolete) Cast-off clothes.

4. (obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

5. (obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.

6. Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.