Also 9 frippier. [Fr. fripier: see FRIPPER.] A dealer in old clothes.
1826. Blackw. Mag., XX. 242. Men … turn their principles inside out, as a frippier does a garment.
1847. G. P. R. James, J. Marston Hall, II. iii. 80. Having proceeded to the house of the well-known fripier Martin, where every sort of dress under the sun was to be procured for a little more than its real value, I furnished myself with the complete equipment of a surgeon’s élève.
