What (who) is bauble - definition
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Bauble (disambiguation)
bauble
(baubles)
A bauble is a small, cheap ornament or piece of jewellery.
...Christmas trees decorated with coloured baubles.
= trinket
N-COUNT
Bauble
·noun The fool's club.
II. Bauble ·noun A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
bauble
n.; (also bawble)
Trinket, gewgaw, toy, trifle, plaything, gimcrack, knack, knick-knack.
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Bauble
A bauble may be:
- Memorabilia
- Christmas ornament - British English
- trinket
- knickknack or Bric-à-brac
- frippery
- gewgaw
- tchotchke
- small jewelry
Pronunciation examples for bauble
1. Their trinkets and baubles cost little enough.
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2. Have stopped time for themselves inside the bauble.
Children of the Sky _ Vernor Vinge _ Talks at Google
3. A glittering bauble of sunlight fights to stay above
In the Pleasure Groove - Love, Death and Duran Duran _ John Taylor _ Talks at Google
4. And there's still sort of baubles from the top.
Mudlarking - Lost and Found on the River Thames _ Lara Maiklem _ Talks at Google
Examples of use of bauble
1. No culture thrives by cluttering its present with every bauble from its past.
2. A black cotton sweatband with bauble–like fixtures rests on his forehead.
3. The fragile Christmas bauble of contrition is then wrapped in the crisp paper of defiance: "We won‘t cut and run!
4. The mayoral bauble, which is worth about $42,000, has a ram, horse, doves and other symbols of Kent.
5. The five–month–old pet had apparently been pawing through the family‘s rubbish and found the star–shaped bauble too tempting to resist.