Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.]

1. Old clothes; east dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing. Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as, the frippery of wit. B. Jonson.
2. The place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
3. The trade or traffick in old clothes. Encyc.