frippery

n., pl., -ies.

1. Pretentious, showy finery.
2. Pretentious elegance; ostentation.
3. Something trivial or nonessential.

[French friperie, from Old French freperie, old clothes, from felpe, frepe, from Medieval Latin faluppa, worthless material.]

noun

1. Showy and elaborate clothing or apparel: array, attire, finery, regalia. See put on/take off.
2. Something or things that are unimportant: fiddle-faddle, frivolity, froth, minutia, nonsense, small change, small potatoes, trifle, trivia, triviality. See important/unimportant, surface/depth.

n

Definition: waste, nonsense
Antonyms: plainness

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finery, esp. something showy, tawdry or nonessential; affected elegance: ostentation

Dansk (Danish)
n. - overflødig pynt, dingeldangel, pralende elegance
adj. - unyttigt, pralende, overpyntet

Nederlands (Dutch)
opschik, elegante/ opzichtige kleding, pralerij (m.n. in literatuur), snuisterij

Français (French)
n. - frivolités
adj. - sans valeur, ostentatoire

Deutsch (German)
n. - Putz
adj. - gering, wertlos, Flitter...

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - περιττό στολίδι

Italiano (Italian)
fronzoli

Português (Portuguese)
n. - roupa (f) espalhafatosa

Русский (Russian)
безделушки

Español (Spanish)
n. - perifollos, fruslería, chuchería, baratija, afectación
adj. - frívolo, poco elegante

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - bjäfs, (små)kram, tomma fraser

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
俗艳, 无用的东西, 俗丽的, 可轻视的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 俗豔, 無用的東西
adj. - 俗麗的, 可輕視的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 값싼 물건, 시시한 것
adj. - 가치가 없는

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - けばけばしい装飾, 安ぴかの服飾品, 虚飾, つまらないもの

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) زخرفه متكلفه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮תכשיט זול, קישוט מיותר, מלים נבובות‬
adj. - ‮קל-ערך‬

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