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frippery
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synonyms: gewgaw, bauble, trumpery, kickshaw, brimborion, fallal, gimcrack, bibelot ???
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Definition:nonessential items; trinkets
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Go into the dining room, I'm coming directly. It's only to turn out those things that aren't wanted," she said, putting something more on the heap of frippery that lay in Annushka's arms.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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