Frip″per‐y (?), n. [F. friperie, fr. fruper. See Fripper.] 1. Coast-off clothes. B. Jonson.
2. Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.
Fond of gauze and French frippery. Goldsmith.
The gauzy frippery of a French translation. Sir W. Scott.
3. A place where old clothes are sold. Shak.
4. The trade or traffic in old clothes.