From French friperie, from Old French fripier (“to rub up and down, to wear into rags”). Compare fripper.

frippery (countable and uncountable, plural fripperies)

Yet, if thou dost, come over, and but see our frippery ; change an old shirt for a whole smock with us...

Yet, if thou dost, come over, and but see our frippery ; change an old shirt for a whole smock with us...

October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years – sport afforded no protection against his tragic fallibilities: Bladerunner's punishment for killing Reeva Steenkamp is but a frippery when set against the burden that her bereft parents, June and Barry, must carry [print version: No room for sentimentality in this tragedy, 13 September 2014, p. S22]”, in

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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