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"frippery" Definitions
  1. objects, decorations and other items that are considered unnecessary and expensive
"frippery" Synonyms
adornment finery decoration embellishment flashiness frills ostentation ornament ornamentation pretentiousness showiness beautification foppery fussiness garnishing garnishment gaudiness gilding gingerbread luxury trinket bauble doodah curiosity gewgaw novelty toy bibelot bijou doobry fallalery fandangle folderol furbelow gaud gimcrack gimmick kickshaw whatnot triviality trifle bagatelle nothing picayune nonproblem nonsense shucks small change small beer minutiae frivolity minutia minor detail matter of no consequence matter of no importance thing of no importance inessential small potatoes regalia array best feather gaiety gayety bravery caparison full dress glad rags garb best bib and tucker clothing attire black tie couture best clothes Sunday best best togs trappings trimmings ornaments livery panoply trimming extras trumpery adornments apparel fripperies bling fitting display ostentatiousness show extravagance flaunting lavishness ornateness exhibitionism flamboyance pomp garishness glitz glitziness pzazz(UK) pizzazz(US) boasting resplendence duds frock sportswear accouterment civvies costume covering dress garments habiliment outfit rags raiment tatters threads wardrobe balderdash gibberish hogwash baloney drivel garbage malarkey poppycock blather claptrap codswallop crock dribble phooey piffle twaddle wack babble blathers jewellery(UK) jewelry(US) trinkets gems jewels knickknacks baubles bijouterie bijoux beads diamanté solitaire sparkler treasures frivolousness levity flightiness flippancy puerility silliness facetiousness jocularity joking skittishness superficiality unimportance vacuity zaniness dizziness foolishness frothiness fun kitsch junk tack trash More

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In context of the Marcoses' theft, the frippery hardly matters.
Robot's love of stylish frippery has been held against it.
Though one could mock the frippery, the show was disconcertingly lovely.
Smooth with a faint sheen, they stand out without any frippery.
Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life is a gauzy bit of frippery.
Frippery — even at its finest — doesn't always do the trick in touchier times.
Also, it means everyone is knee deep in autumnal colors and pumpkin spice frippery. Why?
There will be pomp, circumstance, carriages, frippery and most importantly, a speech by Queen Elizabeth II herself.
The start-ups' frippery intends to distract workers from the meaninglessness and inherent insecurity of their work.
A new monograph demonstrates that the director's aesthetic does not equal "mere frippery," but examines important issues.
You are conflating life-altering issues (ICE agents and possible deportation) with utterly insubstantial ones (wedding frippery).
Speaking to Good Morning America in March, Wu explained that, all frippery aside, the movie is about love.
And if you're the type who finds solace in internet frippery, the memes of the moment are here for you.
I don't think either of them will treat it lightly; it doesn't feel like a frippery to be thrown away.
In the '50s, there was a lot of matching accessories and extra frippery and Audrey liked simplicity and straight lines.
The collection — part Wall Street men's wear, part regatta-striped frippery, part topsy-turvy varsity sweaters — was taking eclectic shape.
And Antenes' dark, enigmatic set was much more a preservation of the freemasons' cabalistic roots than it was highbrow frippery.
It underscored Ms. Markle's own independence by divesting her of frippery, while also respecting tradition and keeping her covered up.
Remaking the brand in her own image, one that catered to the female gaze, she stripped away fuss and frippery.
Standing next to him in a simple white shirt and brown skirt, eschewing frippery, was his wife, Louise, looking equally grounded.
Coaches there are known for their disdain of frippery and the 56-year-old (real name Adenor Leonardo Bachi) is no exception.
The models are obviously beautiful, and do a fine job of making '80s frippery look covetable, but Wiseman presents them as a bored workforce.
You might have better luck waiting for Leonardo DiCaprio to resurface from the sunken Titanic than for Ms. Winslet to don the occasional frippery.
The Oscars are a venerated annual ceremony filled with finery, frippery, and foolishness — and the after parties are the awards show's badass little siblings.
There's simply something hypnotic about watching someone complete a task they've completed thousands of times before with minimal frippery and total command over their environment.
The film was made for a lean, mean 500,000 pounds (about $770,000 when it was shot in 2015), and the filmmakers couldn't afford any frippery.
Behind the frenetic pop-culture frippery is a home-movie about the anxieties of show-business parenting that's a lot more interesting than the onscreen mess.
Or it might be because Chazelle deliberately strips away all frippery in his filmmaking, the better to give the film's biggest moments a chance to shine.
It would be silly to complain too loudly about the frippery of the chef's table — while certainly not life-changing it's not an experience you'll soon forget.
Tommy's wardrobe, for one, suggests a commitment to the 1980s and a familiarity with the defunct catalog International Male, a source for padded briefs and Jack Sparrow frippery.
Women wore blue flannel dresses and waterproof cloaks — as opposed to the frippery of Madison Square Park — and climbed steep gorges with sketchbooks, paintbrushes and pencils in hand.
The macaroni style, brought from Italy and France by men who had made the Grand Tour, proved hard to integrate into English society, which was unused to such frippery.
But there's something stealthily sexy about the low-key way that L.B.M. 1911 has built a clientele without the aid of influencers or salaried peacocks or Gucci-style frippery.
Knifepoint has no frills and no production frippery; its effectiveness derives partly from its minimalism, and the way creator Soren Narnia allows the silence to fill your mind with terror.
But where Sparrow (or even The Lone Ranger's much-derided Tonto) is the real deal, a character grounded in something deeper than the surface-level whimsy, the Hatter is all frippery.
Among the few notable things about this year's Golden Globes was that so many women dispensed with long curling-ironed hair or chignons or whatever other frippery and just chopped it.
Seen from afar and combined with stereotypes about British deference and stoicism among Europeans who spend too long watching "Downton Abbey", Westminster's wood-panelled frippery looks like a guarantor of establishment views.
The Oscars are essentially Hollywood's annual family reunion — yeah, the awards are exciting and the designer frippery is cool, but we're really here to watch our favorite actors squeal over each other.
Using denim — faded, ruched and otherwise treated — as a toughened base, he merged it with the stuff of fashion frippery (lace, tulle, tartan, jacquard) in Delft-toned patchworks of eras and assumptions.
As future first lady Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John Adams, in 1780, "A little of what you call frippery is very necessary toward looking like the rest of the world."
Birds transformed what was once mere frippery into some of the most enviable adaptations on the planet, from the ocean-spanning breadth of an albatross to the torpedoed silhouette of a plunging falcon.
Unlike pretty much every such award outing in recent memory, there were no eye-rolling clothing bloopers as designers and stylists attempted to attract ever more eyeballs with ever more flounce and frippery.
Mireille Enos, who scowled so thoughtfully through all that punishing Seattle rain in The Killing, seems a bit miscast in the pilot episode of ABC's new series The Catch, a stylish little frippery from Shonda Rhimes.
Sold by its heirs in the early 21908s, Adare Manor reopened in 260 as a country house hotel with the kind of architectural frippery in sculptural embellishments and coffered ceilings that make an audience of guests.
Pertwee, for his part, looked like he could've been a member of a prog band; his portrayal of the Doctor favored ruffled shirts, extravagant capes, and other such frippery that were in vogue onstage at prog concerts.
Cherry is also a music writer who's written about these issues for various metal publications, and her style here is straightforward and impactful—not a syllable is wasted or dressed up with poetic frippery or metaphorical embellishments.
In pictures like "The Oath of the Horatii," now at the Louvre, and "The Death of Socrates," at the Met, he purged French art of its Rococo frippery and foreshadowed the moral stringency of the Reign of Terror.
In fact, Count Nikolai Tolstoy says, more kings, queens and all the frippery that royalty brings would be not just a salve for a superpower in political turmoil, but also a stabilizing force for the world at large.
They acknowledged the exigencies of the White House and the unelected, often silent, but very visible role that is first lady, with all the expectations of first hostess and first helpmate that implies, with respect but without fuss or frippery.
The duchess, who largely shies away from floral prints and frippery, wore a sleeveless white blazer dress with gold buttons — something that would not be out of place at a PowerPoint presentation — and Manolo Blahnik pumps with four-inch heels.
And while it's so easy to talk about colors, powders, primers, and highlighters with a Zoella level of soullessness and irrelevance, makeup to me — to many of us — is not an extravagant stockpile of excessive frippery, but something which gives us power.
New American heavy metal upstarts Haunt essentially sound like all the best bits of early Ghost (without all the occult frippery), which, to these ears, is pretty fucking ideal if you like your metal heavy, melodic, hooky, and filled with the holy ghost of NWOBHM.
Claim a spot among the sociable crowd of expats in their finest frippery, and order a few bites: blistered padrón peppers, garlicky fried squid, crisp jamón croquettes and, if you ask nicely, a palm-size Spanish omelet filled with spicy chorizo from the regular menu.
This is the lesson of Gucci, by far the most successful example of an Italian fashion house that uses runway frippery to drive revenues that ultimately derive far less from clothing than those gateway drugs of luxury goods consumption: belts and sunglasses and key chains.
The time was ripe for Chanel and her pared-down men's wear-influenced styles, such as the 1916 V-neck, sailor-collar silk jersey blouse, its defined waistline cascading into loose pleats, and a 1917 hat, devoid of any frippery save ribbon trim, on display.
Under his steady gaze and severe hand, with the ever-present threat of violence (there are rightfully ominous allusions to a basement), she has been raised amid material plenty with luxuriously appointed rooms as well as drawers and shelves stuffed with elegant feminine frippery — gloves, hats, gowns.
She wasn't interested in the Divas' frippery of sequined pants and EDM inflected theme music (the Divas nearly always had electronic theme music, a weird gendering of rock 'n' roll versus dance music which recalled the days of destroying disco records to show the flexing masculinity of rock).
While the impulse is to show up sans coat in all your finest FROW peacocking frippery, that's something the actual weather almost never allows for, saving up all of the season's snow for the exact moment you desperately need to be photographed wearing the least amount of clothing possible.
The author's primary aim in this monograph (published by Berghahn Books) is to demonstrate that the director's arguably kitschy, cutesy, and girly aesthetic does not equal "mere frippery," but that, beneath a pretty surface, Coppola's films examine important issues, especially in terms of patriarchal society's rarified and sanitized ideal of womanhood.
That is, it was balanced — beautifully colored in muted hues of red and brown, pink and algal green; skewing heavily toward overcoats, bomber or caban jackets and other standard outerwear elements (oddly not a given at shows of winter clothing); and, but for Mr. Reid's texts, generally devoid of frippery.
I've always been a grump when it comes to reissues and re-releases and deluxe box sets and diehard versions and all the assorted frippery that labels and bands like to offer (slash push) on metal fans (I also deeply dislike the trend of releasing literal demos or rehearsal recordings on vinyl).
The ideal version of this bra has minimal-to-no-hardware or frippery for thin fabric to catch on, and like the t-shirt, it's casual — it'll be that go-to style that you reach for every day, and will take you from work to the weekend to, and *praying hands emoji,* the beach.
And at Loewe, Jonathan Anderson offered an elegantly pointed meditation on the selfie and 16th- and 17th-century cameos (the connection between the two), juxtaposing the now-and-then by setting the cool of a black riding coat against the frippery of handkerchief-hem skirts trimmed in Elizabethan lace; needle punching ribbed cream knits into organdy petticoats; and flopping a cravat and balloon sleeves out from under a basic black knit tank.
I am trying to write something urgent, trying to be vulnerable and honest, trying to listen, trying to identify and articulate my innermost feelings, trying to make you feel them too, trying a kind of telepathy, all of which is really fucking hard in the first place and, in a culture wherein women are subject to infantilization and gaslighting, in a culture that says your "telepathic heart" (that's Moore on July) is dumb and delicate and boring and frippery and for girls, I sometimes wonder if it's even possible.
ONE LONG RIVER OF SONGNotes on Wonder By Brian Doyle If you are in love with language, here is how you will read Brian Doyle's posthumous collection of essays: by underlining sentences and double-underlining other sentences; by sometimes shading in the space between the two sets of lines so as to create a kind of D.I.Y. bolded font; by marking whole astonishing paragraphs with a squiggly line in the margin, and by highlighting many of those squiggle-marked sections with a star to identify the best of the astonishing lines therein; by circling particularly original or apt phrases, like "this blistering perfect terrible world" and "the chalky exhausted shiver of my soul" and "the most arrant glib foolish nonsense and frippery"; and, finally, by dog-earing whole pages, and then whole essays, because there is not enough ink in the world to do justice to such annotations, slim as this book is and so full of white space, too.
The frippery of the island was dropped like the withes which bound Samson.
At the end of the Sixties, the cultural climate changed. A strong ideological rationalism and the belief in purely functional forms took hold in architecture, applied arts and design. From this perspective, decoration was considered pointless and affected frippery. There appeared to be no place for craftsmanship, given the unchallengeable demands of the market and industrial production.
Digital History: Persecution of the Quakers Quakers faced when they opposed religious ritual, taking oaths, violence, war and military service, and what they viewed as ostentatious frippery. "The Coal State", "The Oil State", "The Chocolate State", and "The Steel State" were adopted when those were the state's greatest industries. "The State of Independence" currently appears on many road signs entering the state.
In 1901, a writer in The Architectural Review complained that Park Lane's former "casual elegance" was being replaced by a "frippery and extravagance" which looked like converting it into another Fifth Avenue.The Architectural Review, vol. IX (1901), pp. 42–43 In 1905 a newspaper noted that "the thoroughfare is becoming a less popular place of residence, eight of the houses being to be let or sold".
The Daily Telegraph. that spent £468,580 on the trip as part of preparations for hosting the same tournament two years later. Salmond responded to a freedom of information request for information on his spending six months after receiving it, and referred to it as "ridiculous frippery". On 7 November 2012, Salmond became the longest-serving First Minister of Scotland, when he surpassed the 2,001-day term of his predecessor, Jack McConnell.
Despite his success, Chapple did not have a particular enthusiasm for racing and never discussed it. His reputation was for being quiet, unassuming and thrifty, and he never had substantial sums on a horse, unless he knew it had a lot in hand over its rivals. He was "quite one of the old school", shunning high fashion and frippery. He married Eleanor Jennings at St Mary’s Church, Newmarket on 9 Dec 1835 and they had one daughter, Letitia Eleanor.
The album overall received mixed reviews from critics with a score of 60/100 on Metacritic. Q published a positive review of the album, calling it "[a] modern pop-rock gem" and also noting it as an improvement upon their debut album Night Visions." Entertainment Weekly published a positive review stating, "the group's sophomore effort scales back on the electronic frippery, revealing the tightly focused rock juggernaut they are on stage." Illinois Entertainer published an interview with Reynolds on February 2, 2015, saying the album is "an ambitious, rock-solid effort, with potential hits galore.
Simon Vozick-Levinson of Rolling Stone dubbed it a "daffy masterpiece" and "a grand psychedelic ramble full of divine melodies and orchestral frippery". David Quantick of Uncut felt that, although it is not as "legendary" as publicised, the album is "occasionally brilliant and historically fascinating" as "post- Beatles mish-mash". Steven Hyden, writing for The A.V. Club, said that the "lightweight" style that was originally panned by critics is "actually (when heard with sympathetic ears) a big part of what makes it so appealing". However, Q magazine still found Ram to be "frustratingly uneven".
Panthéon into a temple to the republic. On his return to Paris de Wailly showed his mastery of the earliest version of neoclassicism, being called the "Goût grec", by exhibiting a table with a lapis lazuli top and gilt-bronze mounts and a granite vase in the "goût antique" at the Salon of 1761; they were designed to be manifestos of a new taste, as the squib inserted in the Mercure de France states, in a "very noble style, far removed from the frippery manner ("air de colifichet") which has reigned so long in our furnishings."Eriksen 1974, p. 274.
Furthermore, the term "namby pamby" came into widespread usage to describe any nonsensical frippery. "Sally in Our Alley", one of Carey's songs, was also exceptionally successful, and it has been performed by many singers through to the modern era. Carey was, after Namby Pamby, a well-known figure among those opposed to Robert Walpole, and the poem had been praised by Alexander Pope (as "Sally in our Alley" had been by Joseph Addison). Carey was an admirer and subscriber to the operas of Handel, but he, like John Gay and Alexander Pope, thought that the operatic stars were absurd.
Even when they break up, they never end. Either Kelly lets the memory of the guy live rent-free inside her head, or, as is the case here, the guy keeps after her and she keeps swearing she's walking away, but she never actually leaves. It's like the couples are stuck in some eternal limbo where they're never together but they're never quite free of each other." Eric Danton of the Hartford Courant also offered a mixed review: "A stab at weary resignation on "The War is Over" belabors the battlefield conceit, though the song also makes a point it didn't intend to make: Clarkson doesn't need a bunch of lyrical frippery to be great.
The then-current fashion of gowns with a train was verboten, as were any frippery at funerals. He also codified the Tulbagh Code of colonial slave law, published in 1754. This loosened restrictions somewhat, only imposing the death penalty on those who killed their masters versus forced labor for lesser offences, allowing them to practice a trade to support themselves and buy their freedom as well as others', and placing said free blacks (called Fryswartes) on an equal legal footing with white settlers. Nicknamed "Father Tulbagh" for introducing road maintenance, firefighting, and police among other civil services, Tulbagh did much to temper the smallpox epidemics of 1755 and 1767, which wiped out almost the entire Khoekhoe population of the area.
The New York Times panned the film, offering that Ronald Colman was ill-used in the film and writing that "either Mr. Colman is slipping or his writers are," and expanded that John Van Druten and Arnold Belgard did not do a proper adaption of "a frivolous French play". They noted that what at one point in the film is meant to begin an ongoing "battle of wits" between the characters of Colman and Reginald Gardiner, devolved into a repetition of " gags," and further questioned why Milestone "should put his usually fine directorial hand to a story as vapid as this," and why otherwise competent performers "should be wasted on such obvious frippery." The film recorded a loss of $32,000.
Although some of the "Tory Wits" like Pope and John Gay wrote opera librettos (the two combining for Acis and Galatea with Handel), opera was a spectacular form of theater that left too little room for dramatic acting for most of the playwrights. Pope argued in The Dunciad that Handel's operas were "masculine" in comparison to Italian and French opera. While this is a musical commentary, it is also a commentary on the amount of decoration and frippery put on the stage, on the way that Handel's operas concentrated on their stories and music rather than their theatrical effects. It was not merely the fact that such operas drove out original drama, but also that the antics and vogue for the singers took away all else, seemingly, that infuriated English authors.
He is introduced to government scientists that have figured out how to send tiny cell samples on their own without need for captured Clan couriers; managing attempts to use Mike's contact Olga to negotiate over the Clan's nuclear weapons; and attempting to hunt down (with the help of NIRT) a potential nuclear weapon that is already a ticking time bomb in Boston planted by the defector. In the long term, the government seeks to deal with peak oil via potentially invading alternate- universe Texas. Prince Egon confounds the Clan with intelligence tactics designed to minimize the Clan's advantages in technology and firepower. He immediately takes to the field, moves with a small detachment; does not dress in royal frippery, but as a normal officer, and keeps body doubles around; and has an elite guard armed with modern Earth weapons such as MP5s.

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