Frip"per*y (?), a. Trifling;
contemptible.
Frip"per*y (?), n. [F. friperie,
fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1.
Coast-off clothes. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry
decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery.
Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French
translation.
Sir W. Scott.
3. A place where old clothes are sold.
Shak.
4. The trade or traffic in old
clothes.