| 单词 | frippery |
| 释义 | frippery noun[CorU] disapprovinguk/ˈfrɪp.ər.i/us/ˈfrɪp.ɚ.i/asillydecorationor otherunnecessaryobject: 俗丽的装饰品；无用的物件fashionfripperies无用的时髦物件 Compare frivolity fluffnoun Things added or attached to other things
Examplesoffripperyfrippery Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlour, naturally regardedfripperyas the ambition of a huckster's daughter. From theCambridge English Corpus Nothing but superficialities and fripperies, on the issue of re-armament, have been discussed here today. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 The programme of spending that we are discussing is notfrippery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We cannot afford at present the labour needed for making, handling, and selling these unnecessary knick-knacks and fripperies, which involve a large amount of labour. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 This is too serious a matter to indulge in this kind offrippery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We need to strip the scheme down to the essentials and consider it apart from all the fripperies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Grass verges and public parks are not fripperies: they are central to the vitality of our communities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 It is these serious realities, and not the cheap party fripperies that are worrying the serious-minded people in this country. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Those are not luxuries or fripperies, but basic necessities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Now is a time when we do not want ornamental names or titles orfripperyof that sort. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not indulging infrippery, because the arts are significant and not simply a minority interest. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 They want to send to us what are less essential goods, what one might call fripperies, and we just cannot afford to exchange for those goods valuable capital equipment. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Get rid of all these silly fripperies. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Fund-raising activities are no longer being undertaken for what used to be considered to be the fripperies or luxuries or for the fortunate extensions of educational experience. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 Far from contemplating any form of royalfrippery, we suggest that a new—probably smaller—royal yacht should be designed and built without further delay for export promotion. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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