| Once a year I get to make a positive contribution to human society by spending too much money on fripperies for friends. |
| He never had any time for such fripperies and actively discouraged us kids from wasting our pocket money in such a depraved manner. |
| The appeal of such fripperies palls faster than people expect, they say. |
| In other words, in a world emptied of inherited values, consuming what look to be overpriced fripperies may be preferable to consuming nothing. |
| Mine is a simple nature and I care not for the fripperies and follies of court life. |
| You obviously didn't need all these little fripperies living away from home. |
