FRIPPERIES Synonyms

• a showy decoration that is basically valueless

• a thread with glittering metal foil attached

• impart a cheap brightness to

• adorn with tinsel

• interweave with tinsel

• (usually plural) accessory wearing apparel

• clothing that is worn or carried, but not part of your main clothing

• a supplementary component that improves capability

• someone who helps another person commit a crime

• aiding and abetting in a crime

• furnishing added support

• a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness

• the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting

• a mock scepter carried by a court jester

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• something used to beautify

• an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

• the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)

• elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail

• a superfluous ornament

• the act of adding extraneous decorations to something

• a minor actor in crowd scenes

• an additional edition of a newspaper (usually to report a crisis)

• something additional of the same kind

• unusually or exceptionally

• more than is needed, desired, or required

• added to a regular schedule

• further or added

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

• the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions

• walk emphatically

• (paleontology) a bony plate that curves upward behind the skull of many ceratopsian dinosaurs

• an external body part consisting of feathers or hair about the neck of a bird or other animal

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

• ornamental objects of no great value

• a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• ornamental objects of no great value

• tastelessly showy

• something used to beautify

• make more attractive by adding ornament, colour, etc.

• be an ornament to

• cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

• a light piece of music for piano

• something of little value or significance

• a table game in which short cues are used to knock balls into holes that are guarded by wooden pegs; penalties are incurred if the pegs are knocked over

• any light downy material

• something of little value or significance

• a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)

• make a mess of, destroy or ruin

• erect or fluff up

• ruffle (one's hair) by combing the ends towards the scalp, for a full effect

• the trait of being frivolous; not serious or sensible

• something of little value or significance

• acting like a clown or buffoon