Frippery

(n.) Coast-off clothes.

(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.

(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

(a.) Trifling; contemptible.

整理:彼得

• All the churches in an ordinary American city put together could hardly buy the jeweled frippery in one of her hundred cathedrals. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is the folly of the simple disciple which demands miraculous frippery on the majesty of truth and immaculate conceptions for righteousness. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

录入:玛莎