frippery

noun6

1. •
   Ostentation, as in fancy clothing.

   • 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. — 1871
2. •
   Hence: secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

   • There's my pretty darling Kate; the fashions of the times have almost infected her too. By living a year or two in town, she is as fond of gauze, and French frippery, as the best of them. — 1773
3. •
   Useless things; trifles.

   • [Olmsted reiterated his insistence that in Chicago] simplicity and reserve will be practiced and petty effects and frippery avoided. — 1892
4. •
   (no longer used) Cast-off clothes.

   • If thou dost, come ouer, and but see our fripperie: change an olde shirt, for a whole smocke, with vs. — 1598
5. •
   (no longer used) The trade or traffic in old clothes.
6. •
   (no longer used) The place where old clothes are sold.

   • Oh, ho, Monster: wee know what belongs to a frippery, O King Stephano. — 1610