The word 'frippery' is correct and usable in written English.
It is a noun that means something showy and unnecessary, with little value or substance. Example: Her room was filled with frippery, from the ornate curtains to the gilded picture frames and decorative trinkets scattered on every surface.
But why forgo indulging in all the frippery the boutiques have to offer, with their work-of-art interiors and over-the-top tissue paper and ribbons, in favour of scrabbling about for last season's cast-offs?
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.
Caucus and party members should use this contest to show that Labor has moved on from its leadership being determined on the basis of opinion polls, or the number of positive media profiles, or the amount of time spent schmoozing media owners and editors, or the frippery of selfies and content-less social media.
There are numerous examples of these small-scale, short-lived invasions.Hardened business travellers, one might think, would be immune to such frippery.
It is more directly centred on the events of that year, but her novel nonetheless carries the realism of lives that have to keep being lived she recognises that frippery that does not suddenly turn serious because a country is under attack.
Visitors to Britain have more than doubled since 1980; British residents make three times as many trips abroad.While the personal letter, with its grand history, has all but died, the frippery of the colourful card lives on.
Torturing stepsisters and the ravenous wolf are the stuff of nightmares; fairy tales are frippery without that frisson.
Insiders say cheap and burly shearers did well in the recession, as cash-strapped customers cut back on frippery.
He has won praise for dispensing with some of the frippery and privilege of the past.
In 1853 it asked its diplomats not to wear court dress: frippery was not worthy of a serious-minded young republic.
An increase in the average marriage age by 2.5 years since 1990 has given parents (who still usually pay for weddings, despite the earning power of their children) more time to save up.The change in wedding frippery also reflects a fundamental shift in society.
