• (n.) A place where old clothes are sold. • (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. • (a.) Trifling; contemptible. • (n.) Coast-off clothes. • (n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes. Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning/frippery/
Frip'per·y noun [ French friperie , from fruper . See Fripper .] 1. Coast-off clothes. [ Obsolete] B. Jonson. 2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance. « Fond of gauze and French frippery .» Gold... Found on http://www.encyclo.co.uk/webster/F/78