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Frippery vs Fripper - What's the difference?

frippery | fripper |

In obsolete terms the difference between frippery and fripper

is that frippery is the place where old clothes are sold while fripper is one who deals in frippery or old clothes.

As nouns the difference between frippery and fripper

is that frippery is ostentation, as in fancy clothing while fripper is one who deals in frippery or old clothes.

frippery

English

Noun

  • Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
  • Useless things; trifles.
  • * 1892' April, (Frederick Law Olmsted), ''Report by F.L.O.'', quoted in '''2003 , , New York, N.Y.: (Crown Publishing Group), ISBN 978-0-609-60844-9, page 170:
    • [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.
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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.
  • * 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
    • O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery .
  • Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
    • Fond of gauze and French frippery . — .
    The gauzy frippery of a French translation. — .

    References

    * 1897 Universal Dictionary of the English Language , Robert Hunter and Charles Morris, eds., v 2 p 2213. [for entries 2, 3, 4, & 5] Frippery (Page: 597) (Webster 1913)

    fripper

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes.
    • (Bacon)
    (Webster 1913)