frippery
frippery 英 [ˈfrɪpəri] 美 ['frɪpərɪ]
n. 无用的东西；便宜而俗艳的服装
名词复数:fripperies
- Frippery is something showy but trivial. You might think you need a feather boa, but your sister might say it’s just frippery.
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- n. 无用的东西；便宜而俗艳的服装
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1. And the metallic color of those unbridled fastens skirt unlined upper garment to having bizarre geometrical figure, cast off the old impression of frippery thoroughly;
而那些肆无忌惮的金属色系裙衫则有着奇异的几何图形，彻底摆脱了俗艳的旧印象；
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2. Yes, the Lone Star State has some fall frippery to call its own.
是的，这个孤独的星州（德克萨斯州的别名）有着一些秋天里华而不实的东西来调用它自己。
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3. Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery.
态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已。
- frippery (n.) 1560s, "old clothes, cast-off garments," from Middle French friperie "old clothes, an old clothes shop," from Old French freperie, feuperie "old rags, rubbish, old clothes" (13c.), from frepe, feupe "fringe; rags, old clothes," from Late Latin faluppa "chip, splinter, straw, fiber." The notion is of "things worn down, clothes rubbed to rags." The ironic meaning "finery" (but with overtones of tawdriness) dates from 1630s.
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