bibelot

Example Sentences

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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

Was I playing with my existence as an infant plays with a precious bibelot that a careless touch may shatter?

From Sacred and Profane Love by Bennett, Arnold