Frippery vs Jest - 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.
* 1610 , , act 4 scene 1
Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
(archaic) An act performed for amusement; a joke.
* Sheridan
(archaic) Someone or something that is ridiculed; the target of a joke.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) A deed; an action; a gest.
* Sir T. Elyot
(obsolete) A mask; a pageant; an interlude.
* Kyd
To tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone.
Frippery is a related term of jest.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between frippery and jest
is that frippery is (obsolete) the place where old clothes are sold while jest is (obsolete) a mask; a pageant; an interlude.As nouns the difference between frippery and jest
is that frippery is ostentation, as in fancy clothing while jest is (archaic) an act performed for amusement; a joke.As a verb jest is
to tell a joke; to talk in a playful manner; to make fun of something or someone .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. — .
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)jest
English
Noun
(en noun)- The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests , and to his imagination for his facts.
- Your majesty, stop him before he makes you the jest of the court.
- Then let me be your jest ; I deserve it.
- the jests or actions of princes
- (Nares)
- He promised us, in honour of our guest, / To grace our banquet with some pompous jest .
Synonyms
* (joke) prank, gag, laughingstock, banter, crack, wisecrack, witticism * See alsoVerb
(en verb)- Surely you jest !