Noun

(uncountable)  The state of being happy.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)

, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=2 citation , passage=Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety .  She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.}}

(countable)  Merrymaking or festivity.

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. — .