“There's a lot to be said for keeping things simple without too much frippery.”

“Rob was so quick to tire of the device and deride it as a toy, a frippery.”

“Gillespie never paid attention to such frippery in the ollapodrida of life as the belching of wind.”

“Philip Henslowe operated as both a theatre manager and a fripper, selling his stock of second-hand clothing to his own theatre.”

“Phone companies tend to advertise their wares with gloss about downloadable music, cruddy cameras and other such fripperies.”

“Once a year I get to make a positive contribution to human society by spending too much money on fripperies for friends.”

“In other words, in a world emptied of inherited values, consuming what look to be overpriced fripperies may be preferable to consuming nothing.”