fripper

English

Etymology

French fripier, from friper to rumple, fumble, waste.

Noun

fripper (plural frippers)

  1. (obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Last modified on 20 May 2013, at 16:46