What's the difference between fripper and frippery?
Fripper
Definition:
(n.) One who deals in frippery or in old clothes.
Example Sentences:
Frippery
Definition:
(n.) Coast-off clothes.
(n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
(n.) A place where old clothes are sold.
(n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
(a.) Trifling; contemptible.
Example Sentences:
(1) As the Powell quote above suggests, as of the early 1970s, they led the way into a world where the most ambitious groups dispensed with band-portraits, and even typography: to this day, even if album "sleeves" are now often boiled down to the size of a postage stamp, musicians usually serve notice of their ambition by leaving such fripperies off their artwork.
(2) Caucus and party members should use this contest to show that Labor has moved on from its leadership being determined on the basis of opinion polls, or the number of positive media profiles, or the amount of time spent schmoozing media owners and editors, or the frippery of selfies and content-less social media.
(3) But the fripperies, he acknowledges, are important.
(4) Based on the icons some claim to have seen, and the posters for the conference, the expectation is that it will follow Ive's philosophy: no frippery in appearance, and a "flatter", more functional appearance.
(5) The cross-section of the public who draw up the standard, in collaboration with Loughborough University researchers, allow little in the way of fripperies.
(6) With hindsight I wish we’d taken charge of education and not wasted time on gimmicky fripperies from Michael Gove and his advisers,” he said.
(7) But this is the wheelhouse of the mayor of a modern megacity: a strange balance between issues of global importance and fripperies like openings, baby-kissing tours and pie-eating contests – and if you happen to be Boris Johnson, performing the Mobot from time to time.
(8) It might seem the antithesis of Reynolds the neoclassicist; but it is actually a perfect example of the "ideal" discovered beneath the fripperies of nature.
(9) Cameron said the voters would not be swayed by unspecified "fripperies" but by whether the government delivered "good results about the things that British people care about".
(10) A solid device beneath a layer of whiz-bang frippery - New York Times Digging beneath the gimmicky features the New York Times's Farhad Manjoo found a solid, basic smartphone .
(11) In this carefully cultivated narrative, it is only the out-of-touch middle classes, who don’t live in the real world, who are able to indulge in the luxurious fripperies of socialism.
(12) Most of us enjoy the opportunity for a spending spree and, of course, anyone who wants to drop some cash in exchange for non-essential fripperies should do just that, with the usual disclaimers about sensible financial management, consideration of your available floor space, and the desirability of recyclable packaging.
(13) He added that the university which contributed £25m towards the school had “squandered money on a frippery”.
(14) If the Guardian means what it says then it is a different sort of politics – but it will involve not the fripperies of parliamentary constitutional change, but a substantial shift of decision-making and a new agenda which really does reconnect people with the political process.
(15) Tron features three chords; the next track, Visions of Load, dispenses with such extraneous fripperies and has only two.
(16) Women’s clothes are always frippery, luxury and always deemed unsuitable by someone, somewhere.
(17) During the day, many African immigrants are walking on the streets of Prato selling frippery.