Emptiness vs Frippery - What's the difference?
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Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
Useless things; trifles.
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(obsolete) Cast-off clothes.
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(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold.
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Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Emptiness is a related term of frippery.
As a proper noun emptiness
is (astronomy) a chinese constellation near aquarius and equuleus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the black turtle.As a noun frippery is
ostentation, as in fancy clothing.frippery
English
Noun
- [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
- O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery .
- Fond of gauze and French frippery . — .
- The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — .