brummagem

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The outside of the car features leaded windows, cream panels, false brickwork and fake timbers, and the motif of brummagem antiquity is carried on inside.

From Time Magazine Archive

Climax of the whole brummagem business was the "Zoro Gardens."

From Time Magazine Archive

More than that, she has lived a life so rich in history that, by comparison, the attractive twentysomethings the Food Network so desperately wants to turn into stars seem like brummagem pretenders.

From Time Magazine Archive

The audience descended safely, opened their eyes, found themselves once more in the brummagem Astor ballroom.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had spent a day in exploring Colombo— visiting Arabi Pasha, inspecting Hindu temples, watching the jugglers and snake-charmers, evading guides and the sellers of brummagem jewellery, and idling in the Cinnamon Gardens.

From Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1. by Parker, Gilbert