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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 frip·pery /ˈfrɪp(ə)ri/
 俗艷,無用的東西

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Frip·per·y n.
 1. Coast-off clothes. [Obs.]
 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.
 4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Frip·per·y a. Trifling; contemptible.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 frippery
      n : something of little value or significance [syn: bagatelle,
           fluff, frivolity]