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Frippery :: Frippery (a.) Trifling; contemptible.

Antipapal :: Antipapal (a.) Opposed to the pope or to popery.

Sliding :: Sliding (a.) Slippery; elusory.

Frippery :: Frippery (n.) The trade or traffic in old clothes.

Frippery :: Frippery (n.) A place where old clothes are sold.

Lapwing :: Lapwing (n.) A small European bird of the Plover family (Vanellus cristatus, or V. vanellus). It has long and broad wings, and is noted for its rapid, irregular fight, upwards, downwards, and in circles. Its back is coppery or greenish bronze. Its eggs are the plover's eggs of the London market, esteemed a delicacy. It is called also peewit, dastard plover, and wype. The gray lapwing is the Squatarola cinerea..

Frippery :: Frippery (n.) Hence: Secondhand finery; cheap and tawdry decoration; affected elegance.

Drapery :: Drapery (n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed..

Empery :: Empery (n.) Empire; sovereignty; dominion.

Pery :: Pery (n.) A pear tree. See Pirie.

Frippery :: Frippery (n.) Coast-off clothes.

Piperidine :: Piperidine (n.) An oily liquid alkaloid, C5H11N, having a hot, peppery, ammoniacal odor. It is related to pyridine, and is obtained by the decomposition of piperine..

Pose :: Pose (v. i.) To assume and maintain a studied attitude, with studied arrangement of drapery; to strike an attitude; to attitudinize; figuratively, to assume or affect a certain character; as, she poses as a prude..

Ulva :: Ulva (n.) A genus of thin papery bright green seaweeds including the kinds called sea lettuce.

Slipperiness :: Slipperiness (n.) The quality of being slippery.

Ropery :: Ropery (n.) Tricks deserving the halter; roguery.

Coopery :: Coopery (a.) Relating to a cooper; coopered.

Mugwumpery :: Mugwumpery (n.) Alt. of Mugwumpis.

Slippery :: Slippery (a.) Wanton; unchaste; loose in morals.

Jaspery :: Jaspery (a.) Of the nature of jasper; mixed with jasper.

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