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frippery

C2 noun

frippery /ˈfɹɪpəɹi/ nghĩa là sự phô trương, sự khoe khoang (như trong quần áo sang trọng)

Các nghĩa

  1. sự phô trương, sự khoe khoang (như trong quần áo sang trọng)

    Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

    countable · uncountable

    And so frippery and force combine to make a political position – support for the monarchy – seem like the natural, sacred default.

  2. đồ vô dụng, đồ rẻ tiền, đồ lặt vặt

    Useless things; trifles.

    countable · uncountable

    [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.

    “At any rate you see me still unmarried. I have found no time to palter with the fripperies of women.”

  3. đồ trang sức cũ rẻ tiền, đồ trang trí loè loẹt, vẻ đẹp giả tạo

    Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

    countable · uncountable

    But, there were preparations for a Festa; the pillars of stately marble were swathed in some impertinent frippery of red and yellow[…]

    We detest the affectation and effeminate frippery which is but too frequent in the modern novel

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