"frippery" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1999 July 21, Jonathan Jones, “Grey and grimy alternative to frippery that bespeaks loyalty to welfare state Britain”, in The Guardian",
          "text": "Well, we were probably never going to mistake Gordon Brown for a rococo dandy. Out go Thomas Gainsborough and George Romney with all their 18th century frills and fripperies, like aristocrats deported on the tumbril.",
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          "ref": "2001 September 18, Audrey Gillan, “London Fashion Week opens”, in The Guardian",
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          "ref": "2023 May 8, Nesrine Malik, “The coronation pulled a screen across a desperate, failing nation – just as intended”, in The Guardian, →ISSN",
          "text": "And so frippery and force combine to make a political position – support for the monarchy – seem like the natural, sacred default.",
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        "Ostentation, as in fancy clothing."
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          "text": "[Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided."
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          "ref": "1900, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, The Lost Continent",
          "text": "At any rate you see me still unmarried. I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport)",
          "text": "[Oscar] Pistorius's punishment for killing her [Reeva Steenkamp] that night is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry.",
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        "Useless things; trifles."
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          "roman": "drǎnkulki",
          "sense": "Useless things; trifles",
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          "word": "дрънкулки"
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          "roman": "mišura",
          "sense": "Useless things; trifles",
          "word": "мишура"
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          "roman": "bezdeluški",
          "sense": "Useless things; trifles",
          "word": "безделушки"
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        "Cast-off clothes."
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        "(obsolete) Cast-off clothes."
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        "The trade or traffic in old clothes."
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        "(obsolete) The trade or traffic in old clothes."
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        "(obsolete) The place where old clothes are sold."
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          "text": "[Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided."
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