bric-a-brac
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VERB + BRIC-A-BRAC
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noun
Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.
The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-day, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s bricabrac, cabinets, china, and so forth.
Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio.
Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.
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Synonyms
noun — miscellaneous curios
- knickknack
- nicknack
- knickknackery
- whatnot
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5The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.
WiktionaryNo doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-day, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, in
WiktionaryHaven't an affair in the world, […] except a quarrel with a bric-à-brac man.
WiktionaryThe shop sells all sorts of bric-a-brac.
Tatoeba · #1559907The market on the promenade sells second-hand clothes and bric-a-brac.
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