frippery

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRIP'PERY, noun 1. Old clothes; cast dresses; clothes thrown aside, after wearing. Hence, waste matter; useless things; trifles; as the frippery of wit. 2. The place where old clothes are sold. 3. The trade or traffic in old clothes.
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