Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for FRIP'PER-Y
FRIP'PER-Y, n. [Fr. friperie, from friper, to fumble, to ruffle, to wear out, to waste; Arm. fripa or flippa; Sp. roperia, ropavejeria, from ropa, cloth, stuff, apparel, which seems to be the Eng. robe; Port. roupa, clothes, furniture; farrapo, a rag; perhaps from the root of Eng. rub, that is, to wear, to use, as we say wearing apparel, for to wear is to rub. See Robe.]
- Old clothes; east dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing. Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as, the frippery of wit. B. Jonson.
- The place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
- The trade or traffick in old clothes. Encyc.
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