Voorbeelden van frippery

• Young women of such birth, living in a quiet country-house, and attending a village church hardly larger than a parlour, naturally regarded frippery as the ambition of a huckster's daughter.

• Nothing but superficialities and fripperies, on the issue of re-armament, have been discussed here today.

• The programme of spending that we are discussing is not frippery.

• 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.

• This is too serious a matter to indulge in this kind of frippery.

• We need to strip the scheme down to the essentials and consider it apart from all the fripperies.

• Grass verges and public parks are not fripperies: they are central to the vitality of our communities.

• It is these serious realities, and not the cheap party fripperies that are worrying the serious-minded people in this country.