gewgaws

Various other mythological agents, recipes and gewgaws are crafted as desired.

It was like a cupboard, crowded with old gewgaws and dust-coated knickknacks — the critic’s mind! — and, fool that I am, I couldn’t squeeze Katz into it.

Batman and Superman gewgaws are on view to underscore that point.

Sotheby’s first positioned itself as a retailer in the late 1990s, when the venerable auction house appointed Dubin, then head of its fashion department, to organize a sale of vintage fashions and gewgaws.

Mugs like this were part of a long American tradition, when retail loyalty was engendered with various baubles and gewgaws.