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bric-a-brac

[brik-uh-brak] / ˈbrɪk əˌbræk /
NOUN
curios
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In the later paintings, he complicated the visual field by introducing still-life props and pieces of bric-a-brac — duck decoys, weather vanes, plastic inflatable chairs, fluorescent Mickey Mouse signs, model boats.

From New York Times • Dec. 17, 2022

As the plot gathers steam and accelerates, Johnson again offers a blunt evisceration of the privileged and powerful, only with fancier cocktails, showier bric-a-brac and gaudier outfits.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 22, 2022

A woman who found two portraits by a 20th Century British artist on a church bric-a-brac stall has described it as her "Fiona Bruce" moment.

From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022

His captivating Teach is the hair-trigger-tempered, cowardly bull in Donny’s cluttered shop — where the characters are as much discards as the bric-a-brac.

From Washington Post • Apr. 14, 2022

These appear to have been spread about, out of context, like titanic bric-a-brac, in a manner that would have struck the natives as highly irreverent—Egyptianizing instead of Egyptian.

From "Circumference" by Nicholas Nicastro




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