frippery

• n. 无用的东西；便宜而俗艳的服装

来自古法语fripe, 破布，旧衣物，拟声词，破碎的，词源同frappe.后来讽刺的用于指俗丽的装饰品，装饰物等。

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.

1. Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery.

态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已.

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2. Affectations of manner and speech are mere frippery.

态度和语言的做作只是俗丽服饰而已.

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3. She often wears ornaments of frippery.

她常戴些低俗的装饰品.

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