fripper

English

Etymology

From French fripier, from friper (“to rumple, fumble, waste”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪpə(ɹ)/

Noun

fripper (plural frippers)

1. (obsolete) A dealer in frippery (old clothes).

   Synonym: fripperer

   • 1605, Francis Bacon, “The Second Booke”, in The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], →OCLC:

     which Collections are much like a Frippers or Brokers Shoppe; that hath ends of eucrie thing, but nothing of worth

References

• “fripper”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.