| 单词 | frippery |
| 例句 | He reiterated his insistence that in Chicago “simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Yes, my husband,” Lady Constance said obediently, rising and gathering the children to her, while her ladies hastily collected embroidery frames, cloaks, and fripperies. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z “And we could reserve space to sell paintings, and combs, and fripperies from France.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “You will mock the Lord's assembly with such frippery,” he roared. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They are fripperies to the soul of man. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The impression, as usual with him, was of an artist who dispenses with formalities and fripperies to focus — with relaxation but also intense seriousness — on the music. Review: A Pianist Makes Carnegie Hall His Home 2022-01-14T05:00:00Z And in food, more often than not, fads are merely social media frippery. Lupin: a versatile and filling if ultimately tasteless legume 2018-06-28T04:00:00Z The Nobel website contains fripperies it once did not. The Nobel Prize in Literature: A Year for Long Shots? 2014-10-07T04:00:00Z By the time Mr. King got to know the actress, though, she had long since abandoned such fripperies. A Window Into the Real Lauren Bacall 2015-03-27T04:00:00Z Tron features three chords; the next track, Visions of Load, dispenses with such extraneous fripperies and has only two. New band of the day - Gnod (No 1,439) 2013-01-25T15:06:00Z It's apparently set in the only Italian restaurant on earth that doesn't bother with such fripperies as food, tables or diners, and the supporting cast isn't as strong as it should be. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2012-06-05T13:10:30Z There was no frippery and almost no decoration, save armloads of gold and silver bangles that seemed as much like armor as jewelry. Dior and Saint Laurent Face the Future 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z And they were famously averse to rock-’n'-roll frippery like guitar solos, so Johnny Ramone’s ultraminimalist solo here is both an upraised middle finger and a brilliant show of compositional chutzpah. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z Fast forward to the digital age, and anyone with a laptop, green screen, vintage frippery and pancake makeup can have his or her own series. TV’s Horror Hosts: 70 Years of Screams and Cheese 2020-10-30T04:00:00Z Stichter calls the piece "a portrait of my secret selves," and its blend of lupine ferocity and feminine frippery evokes the most complex and volatile masculine/feminine mix imaginable. Eye-popping ceramic art at BAM, the Henry and beyond 2012-02-29T23:57:05Z It doesn’t much go in for fripperies like character and narrative and sense. ‘Four Saints in Three Acts’ Review: An Opera Becomes a One-Man Show 2022-09-20T04:00:00Z Fans repaid her with a fierce devotion, showing up to her readings in their finest vampiric frippery. Perspective | Anne Rice changed vampires for the better. And helped her fans become their fuller selves. 2021-12-13T05:00:00Z Their father forbade all feminine fripperies, so neither woman wears any makeup. Geeta and Babita Phogat: ‘Our father taught us never to be scared' 2017-01-21T05:00:00Z Tommy’s wardrobe, for one, suggests a commitment to the 1980s and a familiarity with the defunct catalog International Male, a source for padded briefs and Jack Sparrow frippery. Review: In ‘The Disaster Artist,’ How to Fail at Moviemaking 2017-11-30T05:00:00Z In the rare fighting franchise that does focus on characters and their fictional world, like Mortal Kombat, the player certainly doesn’t need to pay attention to such frippery to succeed. Video Game Review: Fear Not: Your Chosen Heroes Are Fighting for You 2011-03-06T20:17:02Z It was a statement of protest against what Mr. McKinnell called the “degenerate frippery and surface concerns” of “cosmetic” architecture. Michael McKinnell, 84, Dies; Architect of a Monumental City Hall 2020-04-04T04:00:00Z Nor was French art limited to rococo frippery and blushing pink ladies. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z A down-to-earth word with no time for fripperies. What's the loveliest word in the English language? 2012-05-25T11:30:01Z “Goon Squad” employed a number of narrative fripperies. In Jennifer Egan’s New Novel, Our Memories Are Available for All to See 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Among the few notable things about this year’s Golden Globes was that so many women dispensed with long curling-ironed hair or chignons or whatever other frippery and just chopped it. Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z No frippery or flounces to soften her edges. Liz Cheney: The Model of a Modern Never-Trumper 2021-05-18T04:00:00Z Free school dinners and free milk were not some liberal frippery but a necessity, though the crates of miniature bottles were often left near the radiators and soured by lunchtime. Diamond jubilee: writers reflect on growing up Elizabethan 2012-06-01T21:50:02Z It’s this kind of signature that was missing from Prabal Gurung’s uptown amalgamation of snazzy white tuxedos, leopard print, diva dresses draped on the hip, explosive peplums and feather fripperies. What Makes Sustainable Fashion? 2020-02-12T05:00:00Z Noting all the “pseudo-functional zips and buckles” on men’s weekend get-ups, he writes: “Men are into frippery as much as women, but they cloak it under spurious function.” Grayson Perry’s ‘The Descent of Man’: Deconstructing the Masculine Mystique 2017-05-23T04:00:00Z The ingredients of relevance were all there: a celebration of musculature and achievement; a belief in the importance of functional freedom; a little frippery to lighten the tone. Burn It All Down 2018-09-28T04:00:00Z The Second, beautifully played by the harpist Shelley Burgon, brushes aside frippery and frills in favor of evocative mystery. Music Review: Celebrating New Music, Just Off the Beaten Path 2010-12-02T22:12:00Z Witty banter like this dominated the pilot, of course, leading viewers to believe it was full of empty shenanigans and lighthearted frippery. "Terriers": One of this fall's only gems 2010-10-27T18:45:00Z Of all Hollywood's veteran stars, Redford has perhaps shown the most unyielding attitude to the fripperies of the town. Robert Redford, the Sundance Kid, grows old with style as he reinvents himself for film festival 2013-04-20T12:36:22Z Every few years a band will come along and demand a return to basics, rejecting the fripperies of the modern recording studio and any manifestations of musical excess. New band of the day: The Strypes (No 1,396) 2012-11-15T16:37:05Z To illustrate this, Ford has interpreted the idea of “battle” literally: the mannequins, in all their gorgeous chiffons and fringed and fan-pleated frippery are fencing and flying through the air karate-chopping each other. The Multi-Layered Movie of American Fashion 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z For all the fripperies of fame, the core of Netrebko's brilliance is her voice. Anna Netrebko: 'I can make Manon ... bad' 2010-06-17T21:10:00Z Some might see it all as misguided frippery. Perspective | Fashion shows are now 12-hour live streams. Or movies starring mermaids. Or mailed to you in a box. 2020-07-18T04:00:00Z Her language made clear how hard it still is, in her world, to see Victorian-style fripperies as legitimate. Reviving the Joy of Decoration at Nike’s New SoHo Building 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z And it suggests that these pretty soon-to-be outcasts dwell in a society that puts a high value on social artifice and frippery. 'As You Like It': Inconsistency slows this visit to the Forest of Arden 2012-06-08T20:27:04Z As Onegin, his demeanour is icily supercilious, and the high line and sharp edge of his dancing seem to cut through the provincial frippery of the Larin household. Onegin – review 2013-01-27T00:06:11Z Without the frippery, you can see every imperfection. ‘You have no idea how much better I could make you look’: The woman who turns Hollywood men into style icons 2019-02-20T05:00:00Z Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw . Style Invitational Week 1449: Let’s have a get-together 2021-08-12T04:00:00Z Hannah J Davies The idea of plonking frocks, furniture and fripperies in a cathedral-like space devoted to consumerism dates from the 19th century. TV highlights 27/03/2013 2013-03-27T07:00:11Z Today’s cocktail lovers want drinks in which the base spirit is a talented lead, not a shrill vaudevillian who needs to be smothered under a frippery of sweet juice and coconut. Can the piña colada be saved from syrupy flavors and sappy lyrics? 2015-05-10T04:00:00Z Just when the frippery and the metaphorical Proustian scent of Calla lilies seems overwhelming, the show stiffens up with men’s fashion. The Fashion Show From the Belle Époque 2012-10-08T13:33:21Z But none of this frippery enhanced the music or the text. Lot of Leather in Morningside Opera’s ‘Pergolesi: Power Games’ 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z “The iconoclasm and the destroying of the statues and stained glass. The sense that these are vain fripperies and we should go back to the purity of language without pictures. I’m just guessing.” Philip Pullman: Why I love comics 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z Belafonte turned the famous into folks, mixing the frippery of the format with the gravitas of the moment. Harry Belafonte, Folk Hero 2023-04-25T04:00:00Z Down an alley you can find Dickens’s actual writing hut: a two-story chalet decorated with Swiss frippery in which Dickens wrote for the last five years of his life. Voyages: The World of Charles Dickens, Complete With Pizza Hut 2012-02-07T19:16:01Z “Chalk and Soot” feels stretched thin; beyond frippery, what’s wanting is real oddity. ‘Chalk and Soot’ in White Light Festival 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z McClanahan treasured a letter from Williams, which she received after playing Caitlin Thomas in a revival of Sidney Michaels's play Dylan, describing her performance as "utterly common and utterly noble; frippery combined with fierceness". Rue McClanahan obituary 2010-06-04T17:24:00Z It’s easy to giggle along through the first act at the Writer’s Center, though you’re likely to wiggle with impatience as the frippery inexplicably dawdles into a nearly three-hour tour. Avast! Sunny pirates, a frosty ‘Frozen’ and a forecast from Shaw 2015-02-25T05:00:00Z Unlike pretty much every such award outing in recent memory, there were no eye-rolling clothing bloopers as designers and stylists attempted to attract ever more eyeballs with ever more flounce and frippery. The Golden Globes’ 500 Shades of Black: Did It Work? 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z In Kiev, he sees crowds shelter from a downpour under Coca-Cola umbrellas and girls on stilt heels flocking to hear McCartney via the shopping mall "in pursuit of pink fripperies". For young Soviets, the Beatles were a first, mutinous rip in the iron curtain 2013-04-20T13:00:01Z It's been a long time since I've addressed friends and dinner parties and crystal fripperies in some other context than their abrupt cancellation. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The pandemic may be slowing down, but the judging persists unabated 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z Hans Graf, a musician of high distinction, led the orchestra in Rachmaninoff’s dour, overstuffed Symphony No. 2 and offered a mature counterweight to violinist Ray Chen’s fripperies in the Tchaikovsky Concerto. BSO offers excitement and maturity at Strathmore Labour is in no mood to talk about such fripperies as architecture, development or planning. What have Labour done for architecture? 2010-04-21T20:30:00Z This was a powerful aria: one of opera's most traditional ingredients leapt out of all the hypertech and cyberworld frippery and ambushed us completely, no 3D specs required. Sunken Garden; Nabucco; Mark Padmore & Graham Johnson – review 2013-04-20T23:08:33Z The thick paper stock and oversize format emphasizes Mr. Wolman’s view of the groupies as pioneers in hippie frippery. Groupies, From Sex Symbols to Style Icons 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z The Brook Farm ethos walks a fine line: it’s a sincere, unisex, home-ec utilitarian wholesomeness that manages to create grandma magic without going overboard into doilies or other frippery. Critical Shopper: A Primer for the Wholesome, Happy Home 2011-01-19T23:48:52Z In such a world, only acting feels honest, only magic feels real: “It was not the theater that was false, no, everything else was pretense, disguise and frippery, everything that was not theater was false.” When All the World’s at War, Only Theater Feels Real 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z As this book moves deeper into the fripperies of its ghost story, Mr. Mitchell is savvy enough to have his characters, every so often, blow raspberries at the expense of all the solemnity. Review: David Mitchell’s ‘Slade House’ Plunges Into a Battle of Immortals 2015-10-22T04:00:00Z Written as a sequence of three-line stanzas, it is deeply narrative, even conversational: a poem stripped of poetic language, as if Hirsch couldn't bear such fripperies. Edward Hirsch's ode to a lost son 2014-09-05T04:00:00Z Just as it was something of a revolution when women shunned the wedding gown frippery, it may be a 21st-century revolution to declare one’s shopping independence. Analysis | This company wants to move custom wedding-dress shopping online. Is the bridal-shop trip with besties in trouble? 2019-04-11T04:00:00Z Yet in the end, amid all the fun and frippery, the one garment that most lingered was perhaps the least elaborate, least formal of all: the T-shirt worn by Billie Eilish for her performance. Grammys Red Carpet: Show Girls, Tiger Queens and Pearly Kings 2022-04-04T04:00:00Z On the one hand: the stuff of fantasy and frippery; on the other, feeds and headlines filled with threat and fear. Everything Looks Different Now 2022-02-25T05:00:00Z Smooth with a faint sheen, they stand out without any frippery. The Latest in Luggage: The Bold and the Beautiful 2017-01-30T05:00:00Z Standing next to him in a simple white shirt and brown skirt, eschewing frippery, was his wife, Louise, looking equally grounded. Neil Gorsuch: A Supreme Court Nominee Who Looks the Part 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The sums of money being blown on fripperies are staggering. Opinion | Yes, the Tories are in a mess. But there may be a way out for them. 2022-10-16T04:00:00Z Like even the lousiest Regency-era frippery, it has its intermittent pleasures, most of them visual. Review: Netflix's Jane Austen adaptation 'Persuasion' is a dreadful film, never to be borne 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z She was not a hostage to the glamour and the grandeur and the frippery. Perspective | Will Smith, spit-polished thuggery and disrespect 2022-03-29T04:00:00Z Newspapers, essayists, and ministers urged the “Daughters of Liberty” to practice their public virtue by rejecting British frippery and making essentials at home. Building the American Republic, Volume 2 2018-01-18T00:00:00Z One important function of the Academy Awards, often lost amid the frippery and frivolity, is to help the nominated movies find those audiences and those moments. The Oscars are embracing better movies. The show acts like it's embarrassed by them 2022-03-21T04:00:00Z This is a crock, dressed up in legal frippery. Opinion | We now see stark evidence of Trump’s toxic judicial legacy 2022-02-18T05:00:00Z Attacks in the 1990s by Newt Gingrich-led Republicans had slashed the agency’s funding and perpetuated an image of the arts as frippery best funded through black-tie galas. ArtPlace America shows why culture matters to communities 2021-12-06T05:00:00Z In the last act, Wagner removes all the frippery, with just three characters and their own personal stories. Review: L.A. Opera is back big time with 'Tannhäuser' 2021-10-25T04:00:00Z She refuses to treat them as frippery or dainty delicacies: “They can be the main ingredient.” The Ethereal Taste of Flowers 2021-09-06T04:00:00Z Its most lyrical effects are exquisitely simple: Somehow, the red of Undine’s tousled hair and the aquamarine of her window curtains convey more undercurrents of feeling than any elaborate CGI frippery would. Review: ‘Undine’ is a strange, captivating mermaid-meets-man love story 2021-06-03T04:00:00Z Look at the popularity of videos of kittens or puppies online, particularly this year, that is not an accident and should not be dismissed as a frippery. Clare Balding: 'Animals have shaped me more than people' 2020-10-20T04:00:00Z It’s not, because it’s seen as a frippery that should stand on its own two feet. ‘Spotify's tip jar is offensive to artists and consumers’: stars on pop’s future after coronavirus 2020-05-22T04:00:00Z Hamilton will have barely given a second thought to missing out on the bloated frippery of the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award. Hamilton should listen to Berger: set F1 record then live Ferrari dream | Giles Richards 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z She spent two hectic, eye-opening years on the road, surrounded by luxury logos, flashy frippery and massive amounts of consumption. ‘Who made my T-shirt? Is it fair trade?’ Shopping for answers at Galerie.LA 2019-12-06T05:00:00Z Thanks to the Erie Canal, New York was booming in 1825 when Stewart invested his small inheritance in lace and other fripperies for women’s clothing. 5 New York Buildings That Changed American History 2019-10-31T04:00:00Z And some of the scarce remaining time will be filled with the centuries-old rituals that attend the reopening of Parliament—waste camouflaged by ceremonial frippery. Boris Johnson’s Parliamentary Runaround 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Manchester City took to the field for the Community Shield final in a shirt of refreshing simplicity, entirely without sponsors and unburdened by frippery. Modern football kits are stretching credibility – they're not worth the ballyhoo | Simon Burnton 2019-08-05T04:00:00Z I think chinos are on the banned list but worry not – soon we won’t have hospitals and other such fripperies, as we impose our can-do attitude upon the grateful world, dude. England v Ireland: Lord's Test match, day one - live! 2019-07-24T04:00:00Z Now it was 26 for two and no time for frippery. Sri Lanka and Malinga blow away England in World Cup shock 2019-06-21T04:00:00Z Just as it was something of a revolution when women shunned the wedding gown frippery, it may be a 21st century revolution to declare one’s shopping independence. Customized wedding dresses in a few clicks | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-04-22T04:00:00Z But it’s such a lovely tune and he sings it so ardently that the vocal frippery is more or less harmless. Review: Sweeney Todd, Sondheim's throat-cutting barber, sets up shop in South Coast Rep's entertaining revival 2019-01-29T05:00:00Z Birds transformed what was once mere frippery into some of the most enviable adaptations on the planet, from the ocean-spanning breadth of an albatross to the torpedoed silhouette of a plunging falcon. How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z "I think M&S using the slogan 'must-have' over Christmas fripperies is very distasteful when true necessities are lacking for many working and non-working people; the true necessities being warmth, shelter and food," she said. M&S knickers display 'vomit-inducing' 2018-11-20T05:00:00Z Schizachyrium scoparium ‘Blue Heaven’ transforms from a steely blue to a brilliant burgundy in the fall, perfect for front-of-the-border frippery. Who Needs Fall Foliage? These Ornamental Grasses Outshine It 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z So is James Joyce, with his collages and frippery. New Sentences: From Keith Gessen’s ‘A Terrible Country’ 2018-07-25T04:00:00Z You must have had a ritualistic bonfire of the fripperies, not planning for this eventuality, even though some kind of summer, realistically, will happen every other year. Middle-aged in a heatwave? I wouldn’t wish it on a dog | Zoe Williams 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Elite academy players are taught to put such frippery away, to work instead at being a two-footed 360-degree passer. Quaresma chooses liberation over conformity with the outside of his boot | Barney Ronay 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z The macaroni style, brought from Italy and France by men who had made the Grand Tour, proved hard to integrate into English society, which was unused to such frippery. Briefly Noted Book Reviews 2018-06-25T04:00:00Z For years, deriding the fripperies of social media has practically become a national pastime, an easy piece of snobbery. I tried leaving Facebook. I couldn’t 2018-04-28T04:00:00Z Philo’s work was celebrated for its willingness to eschew frippery and foolishness and focus on sophisticated lines. Perspective | Hedi Slimane has a knack for capturing the fashion moment. But can he speak to the feminist moment? 2018-01-22T05:00:00Z Like a sunrise in Hawaii, it is unaccompanied by any embellishment of common Yuletide fripperies like mistletoe or honey-roasted ham. In Bethlehem, Christmas traditions are spare and beautiful, and a star marks the birthplace of Jesus 2017-12-25T05:00:00Z The top, baked to a burnished matte mahogany, is etched in a spare pattern with the tip of a knife — no icing, no frosting, no frippery or frills. A Pastry Fit for a King — or a Queen 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z Remaking the brand in her own image, one that catered to the female gaze, she stripped away fuss and frippery. Phoebe Philo Exits Céline, Adding to Fashion Turmoil 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Royal Mail says it would prefer these fripperies were not sent "as they can be delayed and also delay other mail" and advises that a return address should always be included on mail. The strangest things sent in the post 2017-12-20T05:00:00Z And, for those Angels charged with showcasing the US company’s latest collection of fripperies, the financial rewards are heaven-sent. Last week, a model described luxury lingerie as ‘empowering’. Is she right? 2017-12-16T05:00:00Z But enough of the frippery, the serious business of the Breeders’ Cup main card is about to begin. Breeders' Cup 2017: day two – live! 2017-11-04T04:00:00Z It has us as prisoners, thanks to convenience and amazing frippery. Who will monitor the credit monitors? 2017-10-07T04:00:00Z What he likes is cooking, not the theatre and outward frippery of the three-star venue. Meet your new workplace role model: the chef giving up his Michelin stars | Stefan Stern 2017-09-22T04:00:00Z Balliol is a narrow L-shape of Victorian and older buildings, lacking in architectural fripperies, almost utilitarian compared with more aristocratic Oxford colleges. PPE: the Oxford degree that runs Britain 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Before we bother with fripperies such as team news, let’s get to the heart of the matter. Burnley v Lincoln City: FA Cup fifth round – live! 2017-02-18T05:00:00Z The interior of the building is festooned with festive frippery. Trump Tower failing to do its bit to Make Christmas Great Again 2016-12-22T05:00:00Z Critics cried frippery even as they lauded the cuisine. The Partners Behind Eleven Madison Park Add More to Their Plate 2016-11-03T04:00:00Z Dentists need to make a living, especially considering how expensive their education and equipment is, so tooth whitening and various other fripperies have filled the gap. Surprisingly Little Evidence for the Accepted Wisdom About Teeth 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z Though one could mock all the frippery, the show was disconcertingly lovely. Gucci’s Renaissance Man 2016-09-12T04:00:00Z Gucci, for example, remains fully committed to its flounces and frippery. The fashion industry seems detached from the world around it. Can it reconnect? 2016-07-12T04:00:00Z There’s simply something hypnotic about watching someone complete a task they’ve completed thousands of times before with minimal frippery and total command over their environment. Pioneering producers Lindstrøm and Aphex Twin are still at the peak of their powers 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z He wore head wraps and scarves, and all sorts of frippery, but he never played coy or vague. Prince broke all the rules of fashion, and damn did he look good 2016-04-21T04:00:00Z Who needed a fancy, screw-off plastic cap, a bit of useless frippery? Remember when Corn Pops were called Sugar Pops? The good old days. 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z He combined verve, wit and a discriminating eye, whether he was profiling the fashion world’s venerable legends or reporting on its latest fripperies. Woody Hochswender, Fashion Reporter, Dies at 64 2016-01-04T05:00:00Z That means people are saving rather than buying, economists said, with the silver lining being that they might be saving to spend on presents and holiday fripperies. Target and other retailers brace for holiday shopping onslaught 2015-11-26T05:00:00Z The new special "Baring It All: Inside New York Fashion Week" reviews the finery, frippery and famous faces on display at the recent to-do in the Big Apple. TV This Week Oct. 11 - 17: 'Still Alice' on Starz 2015-10-09T04:00:00Z "Up until now, this hardcore commercial juggernaut has been treated as a piece of frippery on mainstream TV, but Astrology Zone is proving what the grammar can be for a network." How Susan Miller conquered online astrology 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z The change in wedding frippery also reflects a fundamental shift in society. Wedding wows 2015-02-26T05:00:00Z Not Only Frippery This lifestyle, however, is miles away from much of the rest of the world, and it’s easy to view the luxury industry as mere frippery. Leadership Lessons from the Lap of Luxury 2015-02-06T05:00:00Z While most of us associate the last Queen of France with towering, 3-foot-high coiffures showcasing flowers, birdcages and jewels, this particular piece of furniture never witnessed such frippery. Getty's 'Luxury and Liberation' spotlights French Revolution opulence 2015-01-16T05:00:00Z The rail industry's PR machine trumpeted the scrapping of such fripperies as "progress" but there were always some who regretted the decline. Could the dining car ever make a comeback? 2015-01-09T05:00:00Z The Raiders’ 1971 version – a US No 1 for the group, of whom just Revere and Lindsay were left from the garage days – thankfully dispenses with those fripperies. Paul Revere – five great songs from one of America's 60s rock legends 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z But now the Chinese Communist Party was preaching that it is glorious to get rich and the Chinese were swapping their Mao suits for the fripperies of the West. Schumpeter: Adventures in the skin trade 2014-05-01T15:00:11Z The services often include airport curbside-to-plane personal escorts, priority check-in and even fripperies, such as being driven to the airplane by limousine. On the Road: Flying Like a Rock Star, for a Price 2014-02-10T22:33:04Z I suspected deep down that if you took away all the fancy and the frippery and the parties and the activity, just to be alive was enough. The hermit living in the end-terrace 2013-10-18T10:22:23Z By nature Trevelyan was a total stickler, intolerant of all fripperies. The ancient Chinese exam that inspired modern job recruitment 2013-07-22T23:41:08Z Chairman Mao, after all, banned the game in 1949 as so much bourgeois frippery and had the handful of golf courses that predated the Communist revolution plowed under. Golf in China Is Younger Than Tiger Woods, but Growing Up Fast 2013-07-11T09:00:19Z 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. Apple WWDC 2013: from 'iRadio' to iOS 7, what to expect – and not 2013-06-10T07:46:00Z The focus is relentless, laying waste to the frippery of idle comment and, more often than not, opposition resistance. Brad Barritt the ultimate Saracen ready for Toulon in Heineken semi 2013-04-27T21:00:02Z As even middle-class families find it necessary to forgo fripperies like meals out and weekends away – and those less well-fixed do without luxuries like shoes and food – so this newspaper trims its sails too. 'After 16 years of being wrong, I'm off' 2012-12-30T23:00:01Z But it does demonstrate that the domes were serious weapons, not mere fripperies of fashion. Dinosaur behaviour: Headbangers 2012-10-25T15:00:58Z The older Park was, in many ways, the Pinochet of South Korea, credited with putting his country on a path to prosperity, but doing so with scant regard to such fripperies as human rights. Let's Nuke Terrorists! 2012-10-01T05:00:00Z Tiny, incremental change every year means even the simplest kits are sporting silly fripperies. Are this season's Premier League kits the worst of all time? 2012-09-27T09:53:19Z I thought I could supplement the Italian TV frippery with a high fibre diet of Radio 4 – Today, PM, The World at One and so on. Olympic overseas ban on Radio 4 news items has ruined my holiday 2012-07-27T15:08:56Z Although it was an elite venture light on such fripperies as voters’ consent, still less accountability, the European project incorporated many less direct democratic features from the start. The euro crisis: An ever-deeper democratic deficit 2012-05-24T09:38:48Z There are gatemen in white coats And for us hacks a press box that has no frills or frippery and is rather tired, but offers a fine view and has a kettle. Northants want what they already have: one of best non-Test grounds 2012-05-23T14:33:31Z Then North America had not become the safe refuge of political murderers commanding sympathetic ears at the White House, nor had we ever heard of the scagliola fripperies of a Presidential Reception. The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old 2012-03-25T02:00:04.800Z I saw Lady Godiva borne through the streets, more clothed than she appears in the pictures, in the midst of a gay and solemn procession, tricked out in old-fashioned frippery. Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z So for a man to engage in such frippery was seen as silly and effeminate. History's shocking fashion trends 2012-02-17T00:08:57Z Others have aped his ways; have draped themselves in tawdry frippery which bore some semblance to his robes. The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-15T03:00:38.533Z Ireland was decked in the frippery of freedom, which, torn off piecemeal, would leave her naked and ashamed. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z Do you think to terrify us by striking an attitude draped in the ragged frippery of your rank? The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z Isn't it almost a crime that they teach so many of us only fripperies? A Prairie Courtship 2012-02-01T03:00:12.830Z As he remembered, it was a flimsy thing of green silk and lace, obviously a French frippery which might be readily guilty of such a form of naughtiness. The Maker of Opportunities 2012-01-30T03:00:18.090Z There were no cloaks, no weepers, no bands, no scarfs, no feathers, none of the dismal frippery of the undertaker. Rambles in Dickens' Land 2012-01-25T03:00:36.463Z There were no expensive hangings, no luxurious rugs or heavily upholstered chairs and couches; there was nothing of what Mernside himself would have described as "frippery," nothing effeminate or over-dainty. Christina 2012-01-16T03:00:06.507Z A heap of frippery, a handful of gems, a dish or two more on the table cannot give it. Froth 2011-12-28T03:00:38.123Z These speak the man of polish and invention; the rest are but tawdry frippery. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z When he got a clean shave and put on a string tie and backed into a "Prince Albert" coat he felt that he had made a very large concession to the mere fripperies of life. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Worn out at last with her silent war, she bent her head on her crossed hands and fell asleep among the fripperies of her dressing-table. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z His business is to hide, not to display, his lack of interest in fripperies. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z If ye'll guarantee the debt, I'll outfit 'em—no finery an' frippery, mind ye—just the necessities for the winter in the bush. Snowdrift A Story of the Land of the Strong Cold 2011-10-23T02:00:22.547Z "But what have I to do with the frippery of Dame Kapi?" 'Midst the Wild Carpathians 2011-09-09T02:00:57.830Z The utter weariness and cheapness of it all struck her painfully, the passionate cry of love associated itself in her mind with the rustle and frippery of fashion. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z All the fripperies cut out, and the dull necessities left. A Girl in Spring-Time 2011-07-29T02:00:31.493Z But clearly this sort of frippery can't be allowed to stand because football is a Serious Business. Mario Balotelli's strange things 2011-07-25T15:28:45Z What, to waste it all in woman's nonsense and frippery? Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z Few expect them to pay much for such fripperies, at least at first. Germany's odd media: Last-mover advantage 2011-07-07T10:49:11Z That sort of affectation is if possible even more disgusting than the painfully elaborate frippery of the dandy. Martine's Hand-book of Etiquette, and Guide to True Politeness 2011-05-08T02:00:05.770Z That’s right, to downtown Brooklyn, now with a basketball arena and other fripperies rising in the same general area where a home for the Dodgers would have gone. Sports of The Times: A Cosmic Comeuppance for the Dodgers 2011-04-29T01:39:54Z Spend money on the well-being of the soldier, rather than on the smartness of his uniform; cut down frippery, and increase comfort. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z Scarthe himself was habited in all the fantastic frippery fashionable at the time. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z Behold her, therefore, bereft of all fripperies save the dangling diamond ear-rings, which emphasized painfully an excuse for frivolity which had been outlived. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z But upon me the crucifixes, the holy water, the vestments—in short, the frippery—these things have a less agreeable effect. Mr. Claghorn's Daughter 2011-03-03T03:00:53.083Z Mrs. Seth looked contemptuous at what she called "Rhoda's finery," and told her she would never do for a farmer's wife if she spent so much time over a parcel of frippery. A Charming Fellow, Volume II (of 3) 2011-03-02T03:00:26.237Z By giving Twickenham a lesson in rugby realpolitik as they took revenge for a narrow defeat in Paris last year, England delighted those who disdain the fripperies. Six Nations 2011: Martin Johnson's England prove they have true grit 2011-02-27T22:01:00Z She never helps her wretched mother, but thinks of nothing but dressing herself up in fripperies that are never paid for. A Woman's Burden 2011-02-13T03:00:21.253Z Spare yourself the torment, the shame, the pain of denying to the woman that you love the little fripperies and follies and small luxuries that she craves as a flower craves sunshine! A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z It was not an afternoon for fancy or frippery and the culture Venter has built at Saracens is based on sweat, not stardust. Saracens 12-6 London Irish 2011-01-09T19:49:09Z The hair refurbishment people so popular among some former players might find him unwilling to hide his own bald patch, for he does not appear to do vanity or frippery. Ashes 2010: Jonathan Trott inflicts more pain on wounded Australia 2010-12-27T07:31:48Z She took the escholtzia-hued robe and other fripperies from my arm, nodded smilingly, and passed up the beach. The Tower of Oblivion 2010-12-20T17:11:53.787Z Somehow the baldness of the current squad seems oddly fitting, indicating an absence of frippery and a sleeves-rolled-up readiness that was there against Blackburn. Barney Ronay: Five things learned this weekend 2010-10-25T09:17:00Z In fact it added to it, as it seemed to imply they were serious and unconcerned by such fripperies. Rob Bagchi: McIlroy strikes a blow for scruffbags 2010-07-20T23:06:00Z Could you produce any evidence that would appeal to the minds of those figures that march and countermarch, and carry tapers and chant among these frauds and fripperies of their faith? The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Others stowed together great parcels of cloth and apparel and all manner of household stuff, as if they would set up a frippery market. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Probably one of those ribbony, pinky-white fripperies one sees in the windows of the Avenue shops, rosy, foamy dreams like the—well, like the crest of a soda cocktail, don't you know. The Haunted Pajamas But I take it you may know but little of these manlike fripperies.” The Span o' Life A Tale of Louisbourg & Quebec They are all licensed to deal in stuffs, colors, frippery, and flounce. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. On the wall of the little bed-chamber where M. Dupres courteously accompanied me were many photographs, faded but still recognisable, of himself dressed in tights or other theatrical frippery. Love's Usuries The red and white tassels and favours of cowrie-shells the Tibetans hang about his neck are as incongruous on the poor beast as gauds and frippery on the heroine of a tragedy. The Unveiling of Lhasa All frippery is subject to changes of taste and fashion. On the Heights A Novel I wish I could say as much for the new Vicar of Galton, who is a pompous nincompoop and has introduced a lot of his High Church frippery which so annoys some of the parents. Plashers Mead A Novel To the average American, with his frontier mind, wars seemed unnecessary, and all the class distinctions, inseparable from militarism, a mere frippery. American World Policies His glance had gone to the bit of frippery in the clerk's hand. The Indian Drum Nor is it superfluous to mention that he is more responsible than any other person for the intolerable frippery of classical mythology which loads eighteenth-century verse. A Short History of French Literature I could live alone while laboring for my daily bread, but not as the mistress of a castle and surrounded by the trifles and frippery of the fashionable world. On the Heights A Novel It is evident that the family of Benjamin Franklin himself were somewhat addicted to gauds and fripperies. Women of America Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 10 (of 10) "Now here," he said, "is frippery of a superior description; frippery enough to delight the hearts of a dozen women." Hildegarde's Harvest Their dress is no longer that frowsy parody of richer women’s frippery which shocked observant foreigners a generation ago. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" The excellent dame then exhibited with great complacency her gains, most of which she had put in the portable and secure form of personal ornament, making herself a resplendent magazine of valuable frippery. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making The satirical gods now set Tantalus-wise before my eyes a picture of beauty and ease and shelter—a pretty woman in the charming fripperies of evening dress. The Portal of Dreams A frippery flame, indeed, its reflection flickered a moment, a gold tooth in the fissure’s grinning mouth–darkness followed! Pemrose Lorry, Camp Fire Girl Vulgar, as we should now think, but yet genial—a matter of white greatcoats and loud voices—strangely different from the stately frippery that is rife at present. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers Now it is a time of July gentleness and fripperies of color. Old Plymouth Trails They are pigments, properties, frippery; they are always concrete and available. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 She dearly loved to array her pretty daughter in muslins and organdies with dainty laces and ribbons; but camp life called for stout frocks of tweed or gingham, heavy walking boots and no fripperies. Two Little Women France, so we are told, purged and purified by the baptism of fire, shook off its tasteless frippery, and sought a chaster and purer mode.... Paris from the Earliest Period to the Present Day; Volume 1 His dynasty and his Empire were the frippery of a past time. The Missourian Poor little creatures! my heart ached with compassion for them and their hard conditions, while they hung and clung in ecstatic amazement at my frippery. Records of Later Life You may be as neat as you please," interrupted I, "and I shall love you the better for it; but all this is not neatness, but frippery. Eighth Reader He wears no fault Upon the gloss and frippery of his breast! Collected Poems Volume One I am just loaded down with the excellent fripperies of this world, and unable to make a choice. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart She takes no interest in anything but the frippery side of life. Money Magic A Novel You haven't been paying much attention to fripperies of late, Ben tells me. The Romance of a Plain Man I was willing to leave to her all the fuss and frippery of preparing clothes for her daughter. That Mother-in-Law of Mine It was annoying to see Gothic grandeur and modern frippery so mingled as was observable in this church. Due South or Cuba Past and Present Tis the very frippery and trumpery of the stage after the lights are out and the audience has departed. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 And thou, hussy, take this clinging frippery from me and give me my tunic. The Pirate Woman For a tippet, or a ruff, or some equally wretched frippery, carelessly left by the old lady, all their plans for deliverance appeared likely to miscarry. The Strollers She was lost in thoughts of her own which had nothing to do with such fripperies as lawns, and silks, and suèdes, or any other such feminine excitements. The Golden Woman A Story of the Montana Hills There exists among us a profound contempt for all the fripperies and follies of fashion and civilization. Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand Mrs. Webb too was civil to his wife and the girls—always lent them the Dublin pattern for their frills, frocks, and other frippery—and seldom drove into Drumsna without calling. The Macdermots of Ballycloran And Jennie, a woman, took a keen pleasure in the handsome gowns and pretty fripperies that he lavished upon her. Jennie Gerhardt A Novel A sumpter mule had been saddled to carry the baggage, for the dame had, at the last moment, discovered a wondrous assortment of fineries and fripperies that most perforce be translated to Gamewell. Robin Hood And, Cousin Andrew, I have saved some money that my brother gave me to buy frippery and sweetmeats with. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia A man wrestling with a 935 by 135 cover isn't exactly in the mood to compliment a woman on her frippery or talk about the mountains. The Man Who Drove the Car They are the basic things which leave scant room for the momentary fripperies and the hand-made ornaments of existence.... The Prairie Child They wear enormous shoes, large, awkward, and heavy, made of the very thickest leather, and adorned with the eternal red frippery. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 He felt disagreeably conscious of the contrast between himself in his shabby habit and the gilded frippery of this brilliant young insolence. The Duke's Motto A Melodrama "There are two redcoats, full of gold lace and frippery," said Janice Kent severely. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Then presently down tumbled Mistress Maud from the steeple, where, I guess, she had been making observations, and Lady Frances rated the waiting-maid soundly, which I didn't grudge her—the frippery, insolent baggage! The Buccaneer A Tale What do I want with the latest fallals and fripperies to catch my Lord Farquhart’s fancy when he never so much as looks at me? Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 Not like our Tuscan ones; wretched things, mainly tinsel and shabby frippery. The Spirit of Rome But just here the revolutionary side of Hegel's philosophy was again taken up, and at the same time freed from the idealistic frippery which had in Hegel's hands interfered with its necessary conclusions. Feuerbach: The roots of the socialist philosophy William Penn founded his colony on the cornerstones of peace and equity, and all we ask is to live undisturbed and away from carnal pleasures and the wanton fripperies of the world. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia Every one looked business-like, purposeful; clothes were plain and useful, with little frippery. Captain Jim In the sophisticated subtleties of our varnished and velvet-carpeted civilisation, it is well that we should be brought back to the old essential candours which forever underlie the frills and frippery. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations The flowers, the confections, all the graceful little fripperies of the feast, seem to suit with the bright young faces, to whom daylight is a becoming and not a dangerous test. A Little Country Girl Ye tinsel gauds, ye base embroideries, ye female fripperies, have but our scorn. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice And he surprised himself by a tenderness for the winsome, kittenish thing, who, for his sake, laid aside her fripperies and, to the amazement of her relatives, joined the Society of Friends. A Little Girl in Old Philadelphia One cannot have a cow ranch and all the fripperies of civilization, too. The Girl from Sunset Ranch Or, Alone in a Great City Never has the frippery of a court been shrivelled by such fierce and consuming light, glaring like a fiery sun on its meretricious splendours. The Story of Paris And the dear fellow counted much upon this piece of frippery for the advancement of my fame and fortune.... The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. She had never really believed in perfect feminine beauty before—beauty that shone supreme without the aid of dress and frippery—but here it was—a glowing and palpable fact. The Mystery of a Turkish Bath Her life will be frittered away over dresses and frippery and fashion. Fernley House Benjamin Dorn was of the opinion that she was a creature possessed of the devil of sensuality and finding her completest satisfaction in earthly finery and frippery. The Goose Man The count returned harshly, "Always absorbed in some feminine frippery, just as if"— "Just as if I were a woman!" answered Madeleine, forcing a laugh. Fairy Fingers A Novel He that on frippery sets his heart May purchase titles such as Bart.; Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 In every human heart, Cary, there is a place where the man or the woman dwells inside all the frippery and mannerism; the real creature itself, stripped of all disguises. Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow Pretty girls laughed in the sunshine; matrons gossiped beneath the rustling trees; and the sober black coats of the clerical element subdued the too vivid tints of the feminine frippery. The Bishop's Secret The frippery of the island was dropped like the withes which bound Samson. The Cobbler In The Devil's Kitchen From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Mr and Mrs Maplestone cantering past in hunting kit, which at one glimpse killed complacency and substituted disgust for the poor fripperies of town. The Lady of the Basement Flat O, ho, monster! we know what belongs to a frippery. The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] There were braided or woven baskets of all sizes and every hue; there were beaded skins and frippery of feathered gewgaws and moccasins and miniature canoes and plaques of birch, hand carved. Joan of Arc of the North Woods Fancy articles for dress, table luxuries and frippery of all sorts came now into great demand. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death The old fellow, in a black periwig, has a most vinegar-like aspect, and looks with great contempt at the frippery gentlewoman immediately before him. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency It is made complex by a thousand superfluous fripperies. The Choice of Life I'm really most awfully sorry, Mrs. Rose, but I've no feminine fripperies of any sort! The Making of a Soul Heresy is preached more unblushingly than it was thirty years ago; and when it tries to disguise itself in the frippery of æsthetic Anglicanism, it leads captive not a few. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography The women of the city were too busy now to care for society and its frippery; the new objects of life filled every hour. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death On the sinister, is a drawing of exotics, consisting of queue and bag-wigs, muffs, solitaires, petticoats, French heeled shoes, and other fantastic fripperies. The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency Silence, Tom, with your frippery; what do you think. Jacob Faithful Mrs Hamps followed, the fripperies of her elegant bonnet trembling, and her black gown rustling. Clayhanger I never did care for dressing my words with all manner o’ frippery, as if they were going to Court. All's Well Alice's Victory Do you remember the day you fell down and broke her parasol, and what you said immediately afterward about women’s fripperies?” The Gold Trail Costume for Sunday, and the question of possibly squeezing out three or four shillings to buy an extra bit of frippery to add to your charms!” A College Girl Mrs Asplin and I want to look at the shops, and groan in chorus over all the distracting fripperies which we want so badly, and can’t afford. More About Peggy Public entertainments, frippery, and splendour made frightful inroads; and when the domestic table was spread, the invisible shapes of tailors, bootmakers, milliners, mercers, and hairdressers sat down and helped to consume poor pater-familias' dinner. A Hungarian Nabob "Don't let these girls monopolize the conversation, with their feminine fripperies and millinery muddles." Patty Blossom With gown of honest wear, why wilt thou tease For braid and fripperies? The Master-Knot of Human Fate Verily there would be no regret when all this frippery could be cast aside, and by my faith, it was much simpler to lay it off than to array one's self in. The Black Wolf's Breed A Story of France in the Old World and the New, happening in the Reign of Louis XIV All this kind of frippery smacks of the boarding school, the pirouette, and the dancing master, and is out of character for the farm, or the sensible retirement of the country. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings In the night watches in the trenches, in the dogged toil of the batteries, and the crowded perils of the breach, all the frippery and much of the real discipline of an army dissolves. Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes He was reposing at his ease in a simple easy chair, smoking a homely tobacco-pipe, for he disdained all the modern frippery of cigars . . . ’ and so on in an abundance of childish imaginings. Charlotte Brontë and Her Circle "Nor was that frippery parasol mine, though I did lose a good, stout, serviceable one somewhere that day." The Circular Study Homer's fictions will always be preferred to historical truth, Rubens' fabulous magnificence to all the frippery copied exactly from the lay figure. The Mind of the Artist Thoughts and Sayings of Painters and Sculptors on Their Art There will be found little of such frippery with them. Rural Architecture Being a Complete Description of Farm Houses, Cottages, and Out Buildings "Shame on the country," said Ryland, "to lay so much stress upon words and frippery; it is a question of nothing; of the new painting of carriage-pannels and the embroidery of footmen's coats." The Last Man The several mothers of the court frequently donated old ribbons, feathers, or flowers, from discarded millinery or other finery, and all these were utilized by the frippery loving courtiers. Marjorie at Seacote You see, there's hardly anything to dust in this room: the books and the china are in those two cupboards with glass doors, and we have no fripperies at all lying about. The Luckiest Girl in the School There were fads and fripperies from Grace Clendenning in Paris, while Aunt Frances had evidently raided Fifth Avenue and had brought away its treasures. Contrary Mary Though she had not been in business long, she already realised what an advantage it is to deal, as regards feminine fripperies, with a man-customer. What Timmy Did Its fashions and fripperies and meaningless forms were not beyond learning; and, by Heaven! he would learn them, too, and put them all to shame. The Quickening And how could the common eye discern, through all of these externals of frippery, the lion heart, the eagle vision, and the mind of conquest and empire? The Young Man and the World But the amiable woman's prattle deserted her when she found herself in the cold stone hall with the great portraits and the lack of all modern frippery. The Half-Hearted She regarded it—or, indeed, any other form of art, for that matter—as amongst the immaterial fripperies of life, something to be put aside at any moment in favour of social or domestic duties. The Moon out of Reach For the time his soul abhorred what seemed to him frippery. The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel She wore a dress of heavy silk, long-trained; the cream-white folds, unspoiled by any frippery of lace, took, as they dropped around her, the shade and convolutions of a lily. The Other Girls In order to accomplish this, one of the bandilleros will engage the animal in conversation while another sneaks up behind him with the frippery. Love Conquers All He never has a conventional image, and never resorts to the second-hand frippery of a poetical commonplace-book to tag his verses with. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 For a sentimental frippery may be given a feminine name and may bear her years gracefully—even though she does creak in all her hundred joints when the track is the least bit uneven. How To Write Special Feature Articles A Handbook for Reporters, Correspondents and Free-Lance Writers Who Desire to Contribute to Popular Magazines and Magazine Sections of Newspapers In England we are said to learn manners at second-hand from your side of the water, and that we dress our behavior in the frippery of France. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) There was a genuineness about the pair which was distinctly refreshing to Jack's jaded tastes in fashionable feminine fripperies and he fell into the conversation as smoothly as a finger into a well-fitting glove. Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment And Margaret felt no shadow of regret at thought of the gauds and fripperies of a fashionable wedding which would not be hers. Pearl of Pearl Island Such frippery we have learned to leave to the ladies; and etiquette does not require them to lay aside their hats. The Awakening of China She assumes the simple aspect these poor creatures love, accepting the blue and white robes, the crown and wreaths of roses, the trinkets and garlands and frippery of a first Communion, the ugliest garb. The Cathedral They took an old, huge, full-bottomed periwig out of the wardrobe of the antiquated frippery of Louis the Fourteenth, to cover the premature baldness of the National Assembly. The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) A modern writer, whose poetical genius cannot be too much admired, chooses to call it a frippery way of writing. A Dialogue Concerning Oratory, Or The Causes Of Corrupt Eloquence The Works Of Cornelius Tacitus, Volume 8 (of 8); With An Essay On His Life And Genius, Notes, Supplements And there are some fripperies we simply must have," said Miss Penny, "even for a runaway wedding like this. Pearl of Pearl Island Such female frippery as this shall never degrade them. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, May, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy There seems to be no interval between the marbles and mosaics of Justinian or Theodoric and the insignificant frippery of the last century. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series The chance finding of an "old square yellow book" which aroused his curiosity among the frippery of a Florentine stall, was as grotesquely casual an inception as poem ever had. Robert Browning In the room below, amidst the tinsel frippery of small wares, waited others whose lives had touched the life that was ebbing away. Audrey But for social distinction, for the frippery and display of life, he has a positive dislike. Sketches in the House (1893) He spread his ice-cold hands out before it, incurious of the futile little room whose draperies and fripperies and inconsiderable flimsiness of furniture proclaimed its owner, intent only on the elemental need of warmth. Septimus It would of looked to outsiders like he was throwing his money away on fripperies, but he knew it was a prime necessity of life all right. Somewhere in Red Gap Alice needed no ornaments, and fripperies would have struck a jarring note. Carmen's Messenger Shop windows blossomed with all the delicate fripperies with which a Frenchwoman can make old garments look new. The Living Present The rule is quite in harmony with it that mere frippery should be avoided within and without, and the purely decorative architect excluded with Miss McFlimsey. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 His selfishness, his vanity, his idleness, his frippery were annulled in the instant. The Frontiersmen Upon this presumptuous interference, Mohi looked highly offended; and nervously twitching his beard, uttered something invidious about frippery young poetasters being too full of silly imaginings to tell a plain tale. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I Tis an ungrateful reflexion that all this frippery and effected finery, can only he supported by the sweat of another person's brow, and consequently only by lawful rapine and injustice. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916 Trunks were turned inside out, and all the finery and the frippery of the Popkins family scattered about the road. Tales of a Traveller It was brimful of silk neckerchiefs and women's frippery. Weird Tales from Northern Seas And as he tolerated amongst his mental furniture no illusions and fostered no follies, his home life harbored no fripperies. The Frontiersmen He looked like one who goes forth a-wooing, in all the gay frippery supposed to be pleasing in a maiden's eyes. Tom Tufton's Travels But under the mask of frippery he worked unsleepingly to advance the Church of Rome, for he had secretly taken orders as a Jesuit Priest. English Travellers of the Renaissance Her room was bare, pitifully bare, swept clean of all the tawdry fripperies that one might expect from such an environment and circumstance. Broken to the Plow There was nothing good enough for her in the whole shop; there was not a shelf that she didn't ransack to find the finery and frippery that glittered most. Weird Tales from Northern Seas Have a care that you be honestly clad, without new devices and without too much or too little frippery. Medieval People Gold, silver, costly marbles, jewels, stucco, paint, tinsel, and frippery are all mixed up together in the wildest manner. Anahuac : or, Mexico and the Mexicans, Ancient and Modern The Court I found to be a small square surrounded by tall, miserable houses, with old garments and frippery fluttering from every window. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 01 Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great When the Decline and Fall was published, Burke read it as everybody else did; but he told Reynolds that he disliked the style, as very affected, mere frippery and tinsel. Burke The two vessels which I formerly mentioned as having brought horses from Hispaniola, only arrived three days before us, and we were fools enough to run ourselves in debt by purchasing their useless frippery. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 04 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time Yet, however the speeches might be got by heart, or the frippery and actors hired, the drame was powerfully performed; and all Europe sat by, giving it the tribute of its tears and its terrors. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 332, June, 1843 "So much more rational and convenient than our fashionable fripperies!" Overland It is but a short one—at least, as regards the company of the gentlemen, for they sit late; father's port, I am told, not being to be lightly left for any female frippery. Nancy Heare yet a word As for the sword and other fripperies, In a faire way send for them, you shall have 'em. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother They accounted for it by supposing a silly hankering after the pomp or the frippery of Roman Catholic worship, and at best a craving after the romantic and sentimental. The Oxford Movement Twelve Years, 1833-1845 The second order of gauzes are frippery, none above twelve shillings, and those tarnished, for the species is out of fashion. Letters of Horace Walpole — Volume I This had the effect of making the prudent and frugal, who were denied the comfort of either limousines or taxis, decide on street costume instead of evening fripperies. The Blood Red Dawn They bedizened themselves with frippery, shrieked like parrots on all occasions and interpreted the motto of the time, "Carry On," in a sense deplorably remote from its higher significance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 21, 1917 Hear yet a word; as for the Sword and other fripperies, in a fair way send for them, you shall have 'em. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother There is nothing like Old England, say they; yet paramount as their love of country appears to be, their love of French frippery is a stronger passion! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 386, August 22, 1829 How these young pea-chicks must needs ape the grown peacock’s frippery! The Saint's Tragedy On the strength of her presumable princessship she had gone on another excursion to Boston carrying the Lambert twins with her this time and had returned laden with all manner of feminine fripperies. Wild Wings A Romance of Youth He must not come down from his fastnesses in traditional barbarism and native rusticity: the level, the littleness, the frippery of modern civilization will undo him as it has undone us! The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits Mine is a simple nature and I care not for the fripperies and follies of court life. Robin Hood He could not take his mind off of her, and a persistent picture came to him of her sitting by a window and sewing feminine fripperies of some sort. Burning Daylight I don't believe in all these fripperies and superstitions, and I won't submit to them. Tono Bungay It was the room of a man who had a passion for frippery, who had a perverted taste for soft delicate things. Greenmantle By living a year or two in town, she is as fond of gauze and French frippery as the best of them. She Stoops to Conquer Vulgar, as we should now think, but yet genial—a matter of white greatcoats and loud voices—strangely different from the stately frippery that is rife at present. Lay Morals Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlor, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter. Middlemarch In Miss Hartley's case, it strikes me as the instinctive ability to evolve a finished work of art from a few fripperies, without the aid of technical training. Vane of the Timberlands Still, I would like to see her off the stage…without all those gaudy fripperies and gewgaws…merely from curiosity…. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking Having donned this frippery, good Master Foster and I hired a calash and drove to the Palace. Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 He disliked frippery, yet withal made a brave show in the sun. The Forest Lovers He passed behind it to arrange a cushion under her head, with an awkward, grudging tenderness; and then rose to face Lord Rokesle across the disordered pink fripperies. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes The luxury was masculine luxury, refined and significant; there was no meaningless feminine fripperies about, nor was there any evidence of sensuous self-indulgence. The Heavenly Twins She had half turned, standing, in pink and silver fripperies, with one bared arm resting on the chair back, in one of her loveliest attitudes. The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking So far as clean linen was concerned, she would have appeared infinitely brighter and fresher had she and female frippery at once parted company. The Uninhabited House What is more you would look so utterly unlike what you look like in your fantastic fripperies that no one would even suspect you of being the same man. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire I am done with the beaux and the toasts and the fripperies. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty All frippery and decoration had long been stripped from the army. Mohun, or, the Last Days of Lee The food is the best of all—no French fripperies, but solid rare cuts. The Happy End There was a mixture of frippery and sternness in its expression,—something between Madame Vestries and T. P. Cooke, or between "lovely Sally" and a "Captain bold of Halifax." Paul Clifford — Complete When I conned myself in my dressing-room mirror, arrayed in such a superfluity of decorations and fripperies, I felt sure that no one would take me for a Roman. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire There was a mixture of frippery and sternness in its expression,— something between Madame Vestries and T. P. Cooke, or between "lovely Sally" and a "Captain bold of Halifax." Paul Clifford — Volume 01 You know what a handsome young man he must be now, and full of French style and frippery. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War The trees above us looked proud and cheerful, laying aside the mere frippery of leaves with a good grace and contented arms, and a surety of having quite enough next spring. Erema — My Father's Sin She swept to the door in her brilliant dress, her perfumed laces, her shining jewels—the glittering fripperies for which her womanhood was to be sold. A Terrible Secret Ah, my little dear, nothing is equal to the gifts of God, and all the fripperies of women will never serve them as well as the simple attire of our first mother. The Grip of Desire I shall hate myself in frippery, strutting along, and vying finery with Beaux and Belles with "Future Lord Byrons and sweet L.E.L.'s." The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 A library of diurnals is a wardrobe of frippery; 'tis a just idea of a Limbo of the infants. Character Writings of the 17th Century Have they not gained a whole world of gold and silver mines to buy jewelled cloaks and feathers and frippery with? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 12, October, 1858 I am no judge," he conceded, gravely, "of such fripperies. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations A display-window, denuded of frippery but strewn with straw and crisscrossed with two large strips of poster, proclaimed Chicklet Face Powder to the cosmetically concerned. Gaslight Sonatas If a radish can be so proclaimed, there might be a lilt devised in praise of other pleasing merceries—a tripping pizzicato for laces and frippery—a brave trumpeting for some newest cereal. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come You took notice," says he, "of a fine lady flaunting about our walk in all the frippery of the fashion. The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves It is of no use cutting off follies and fripperies from the outside so long as the heart's desire for them remains. A Domestic Problem : Work and Culture in the Household Matocton was decked in its spring fripperies of burgeoning, and the sky was a great, pale turquoise, and the buttercups left a golden dust high up on one's trousers. The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck A Comedy of Limitations Bonnets, gloves, frippery and trash—nay, nay, Tears, MRS. The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe I will speed back to my boy; 'tis like he waits for me at the pease- puddingry, or the curiosity shop; yet stay; his instructions were to meet me at the frippery. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 Her task finished, she shut the books, and employed the remainder of the time in translating a number of little mottoes into German, which she had composed for boxes, baskets, and other frippery. Thaddeus of Warsaw The maiden speaks well and boldly, Berwine," said Dame Ermengarde; "and, in truth, pass we but over some of these vain fripperies, is attired in a comely fashion. The Betrothed General Lauriston is a very handsome man, and of a very pleasing and amiable countenance; and his manly air carried off the frippery of his trappings, so as to make them appear almost to advantage. The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 "But leave space among your fripperies for a few books on the stars that Leo and I may be studying in odd moments." The Little Lady of the Big House I thought again of the poor disinherited Pope, wondering whether, when such venerable frippery will no longer bear the carpenter's nails, any more will be provided. Italian Hours "All our furniture has faded," he writes, "under the auctioneer's hammer; going for nothing, like the tarnished frippery of the prodigal." Charles Lamb You are as fond as I am of French fashions and fripperies. The Maid of Maiden Lane At last he said, in a hard tone, "Well, after buying all this frippery, how much money have you left?" Without a Home Yet his face wrinkled with smiles as his glance rested amiably upon the bodily presences of certain illustrious members of the brotherhood, wild men in withered frippery, wine-stained to the very bones. If I Were King What has a herd boy like thee to do with roses and frippery? The Herd Boy and His Hermit And I inwardly wondered that she should spend so much care upon such frippery—all senseless bows and laces. The Broad Highway From the crown of her plain straw "sailor" to the soles of her sensible walking-boots there was no suggestion of feminine frippery. The Iron Trail "And then all the frippery would be thrown away upon me." He Knew He Was Right He has gone out of her life like yesterday's sunshine or yesterday's frippery. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel If I ever had tinsel parts, age has not only tarnished them, but convinced me how frippery they were. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 With a kind of inward indignation, he asked himself what business he had to be there looking curiously into a woman's room, littered with all the fripperies and expensive absurdities of a woman's apparel? God's Good Man On the contrary, it was a bower of daintiness, and was crowded with all the senseless fripperies of a school-girl. The Iron Trail I will say nothing about old Sarah's Memoirs; for, with some spirit they are nothing but remnants of old women's frippery. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Proudly, when the task was accomplished, did they contemplate their work, and predict the aspect of their tinsel and frippery when duly lighted up. Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 But with my will, you shall make no more frippery of the kind. Mr. Hogarth's Will Must we then all pay for this empty grandeur, this frippery of earthly magnificence, with our heart's blood and our best hopes? Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends Out with the truth, man: my wife is my wife: I want no more of your poetic fripperies. Candida I Would ask why Mr. Chute has left me off but when he sees what a frippery correspondent I am, he will scarce be in haste to renew with me again. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Their lyricism, in front of the footlights, needed buskins and frippery, or, at any rate, fostered them, as the pieces of Hugo and de Vigny proved. Balzac Defend yourselves against this disintegrating invasion—not by force, be it understood, not by inhospitality or ill-humour—but by disdaining this Occidental rubbish, this last year's frippery by which you are inundated. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) The Cleveland set will be sure to deal in frippery, and I have been looking over Mrs. Hoxton's stores, where I see quite enough for mere decoration. The Daisy chain, or Aspirations It is not indeed the making of necessaries that weakens the mind; but the frippery of dress. Vindication of the Rights of Woman They dress these helpless ladies in all the fripperies of femininity from the wax out, oblivious to the flippant comments of gathering crowds. The Native Son Yea, and when the servants brought a bowl, I thought it was a wholesome draught of spring water after all their hot wines and fripperies. The Dove in the Eagle's Nest Or shall we send all this to the brokers, as old decayed frippery, and make our inquiry into such things as are most practical and with the greatest earnestness delivered by them? Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies What signify these fripperies?" she asked him, one day, "any more than did your coat of decent black? The Tavern Knight I know not, indeed, how the frippery came here. Cleopatra Put the wig and shoes on him, and he is six feet high;—the other fripperies, and he stands before you majestic, imperial, and heroic! The Paris Sketch Book For in the sweet seclusion of this half darkened sanctuary the clinging fripperies of her past slipped from her as a tawdry garment. A First Family of Tasajara They knew that for this undertaking I should want no costume-effects, none of the frippery of past ages—that it was a case in which everything would be contemporary and satirical and, presumably, genteel. The Real Thing They passed under an awning of old clothes, tawdry fripperies, greasy spangles, and battered masks, into a shop as black and hideous as the entrance was foul. Burlesques The effect of the growing taste for such frippery was that our gold and silver went abroad, and that much excellent English drapery lay in our warehouses till it was devoured by the moths. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Suddenly he lowered his tightened rein, the mustang sprang forward, and with a flash of silver spurs and bridle fripperies he had disappeared. The Three Partners Even the foppish fripperies of his riding-dress and silver trappings seemed as much the natural expression of conquering youth as the invincible morning sunshine. Susy, a story of the Plains And then she would fondle me, and then she would laugh, and she danced about and tore up her fripperies. Carmen The riding skirt and her mustang's fripperies had added to Concha's piquancy, and if her origin was still doubted by some, the child herself was accepted with enthusiasm. Trent's Trust, and Other Stories It was running over with frippery,—olla podrida cropping out everywhere. Gala-days She promptly overhauled her feminine fripperies, paid a protracted visit to the dry-goods department of the P. C. Company, and returned with the Kid to make Madeline's acquaintance. The Son of the Wolf They knew that for this undertaking I should want no costume—effects, none of the frippery of past ages—that it was a case in which everything would be contemporary and satirical and presumably genteel. Some Short Stories [by Henry James] On his return to his own country, all this frippery is useless. Travels through France and Italy Of course, I am referring only to these accursed gewgaws, to these frills and fripperies! Poor Folk And how well he became his housing of silk, and all its frippery of gold in fringe and gold in tassel! Ben-Hur; a tale of the Christ He was well dressed without fripperies, and bore with him an air of vigorous authority. Captain Blood Then, young Taylor was rich, and she could throw away money on those knick-knacks and frippery, to which, according to Mr. Graham, women attach such exorbitant value. Elinor Wyllys, Volume 1 His first aim is to adorn his own person with what he calls fine cloaths, that is the frippery of the fashion. Travels through France and Italy Yes, I have been running about after fripperies! Poor Folk The unknown fair one, seated in front of a dressing-table blazing with wax lights, was unfastening her frippery with the utmost calmness. Massimilla Doni But as to what I can give you, I will not have the crown-pieces I have picked up with so much toil wasted in carriages and frippery. At the Sign of the Cat & Racket I’m old enough to be your father’s brother, and I’ve a daughter older than you, and I’ll tog you out in fripperies when we get to Dawson if it takes my last dollar.” The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke From first to last he was the stern and beetle-browed marauder, who would have despised the frippery of Sixteen-String Jack as vehemently as his sudden appearance would have frightened the foppish lover of Ellen Roach. A Book of Scoundrels Indeed, Monsieur Bwikov is quite angry about the fuss which these fripperies are entailing, seeing that there remain but five days before the wedding, and we are to depart on the following day. Poor Folk There shall be no more buying of gowns and fripperies. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed To-day business sees to it that fripperies are within the reach of every purse. The Foundations of Personality What he had in mind was, of course, the movement represented by Wordsworth, Southey, and Coleridge, the romantic poets of the Lake School, whom he describes as a "modern-antique compound of frippery and barbarism." Shelley So that where'er ye look, ye see No capital, no cornice free, Or frieze, from this fine frippery. A selection from the lyrical poems of Robert Herrick Here fretful boredom, to appease The nagging of her long disease, Comes day by day to dabble in This foamy sea of fripperies. An Anthology of Australian Verse He suddenly discovered an immense affection for those fripperies of hers at which he had secretly laughed when first he saw them. Adventure |
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