fripper

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfɹɪpə(ɹ)/

Noun

fripper (plural frippers)

(obsolete) One who deals in frippery or old clothes.
- 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

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for fripper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

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