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Frippery vs Glitter - What's the difference?

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Frippery is a related term of glitter.


As nouns the difference between frippery and glitter

is that frippery is ostentation, as in fancy clothing while glitter is a bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.

As a verb glitter is

to sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.

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)

    glitter

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bright, sparkling light; brilliant and showy luster; brilliancy; as, the glitter of arms; the glitter of royal equipage.
  • A shiny, decorative adornment, sometimes sprinkled on glue to make simple artwork.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To sparkle with light; to shine with a brilliant and broken light or showy luster; to gleam.
    • a glittering sword
    the glittering ornaments on a Christmas tree
  • * Dryden
    • The field yet glitters with the pomp of war.
  • To be showy, specious, or striking, and hence attractive.
    • the glittering scenes of a court

    Derived terms

    * all that glitters is not gold