bibelot
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Gewgaw, a shiny trinket Bon Voyage A trinket or a knickknack, an ornament, a kickshaw, a frippery, a gimcrack, a bibelot, a gewgaw .
From Washington Post ● Aug. 12, 2021
He finds it painful to see this memento of colonialism and bondage turned into an amusing bibelot, but he also loves the woman in whose household it is displayed.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2019
Serotonin is a tiny molecule, a bibelot built of just 10 carbon atoms, a dozen hydrogens, two nitrogens and a single oxygen.
From New York Times ● May 2, 2011
At least this gross bibelot has some authenticity, as do Manuel Ocampo's frantic, heavy-handed but indubitably sincere paintings in an idiom derived from Filipino popular religious art.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Answer for yourself please, I may have several other reasons," he said coldly, and got up and walked across the room picking up a bibelot here and there, and replacing it restlessly.
From His Hour by Glyn, Elinor
Do you need to hide some cash, jewelry or other bibelots that have sentimental value?
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Norma has a weakness for massive jewelry, and gifts Joe with gold bibelots.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 30, 2022
There are 10 of them, solid wooden furniture, covered with the detritus you find at estate sales: glassware, china, bibelots, books, even a cache of manual typewriters.
From New York Times ● Mar. 31, 2014
There are no animal acts either, just a furry boar's head mounted above shelves handsomely arrayed with books and bibelots.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 16, 2012
They ransacked the bookshelves in the study, sending the senator’s bibelots and works of art crashing to the floor.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
