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frippery
This term carries a strong sense of superficiality and waste, often evoking an image of over-embellishment that obscures the actual purpose or value of an object. It is typically used with a critical or dismissive tone to describe things that are aesthetically loud but functionally useless.
Grammatically, this noun is treated as an uncountable mass noun. It describes a collective quality of triviality or a category of ornaments rather than individual items. Consequently, it does not have a standard plural form and requires partitive constructions like a piece of frippery if a single item must be specified.
Meanings
Examples
The court was filled with nobles draped in silk and gold frippery.
I have no time for such idle frippery when the kingdom is at war.
She looked at the dress and decided it had far too much unnecessary frippery.
Stop this endless frippery and get to the point of the meeting.
The shop was cluttered with cheap frippery that served no real purpose.
Why must you insist on all this lace and frippery for a simple dinner party?
He viewed the social rituals of the upper class as mere frippery.
The costume was a chaotic mess of sequins and other glittering frippery.