frippery

Meaning

Noun

• Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.
• Useless things; trifles.
• Cast-off clothes.
• The trade or traffic in old clothes.
• The place where old clothes are sold.
• Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Origin

• From French friperie, from Old French fripier ("to rub up and down, to wear into rags"). Compare fripper.