Brummagem

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  • adjective. Cheap and showy; meretricious.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A piece of brummagem ware; hence, an imitation; sham.
  • Showy but worthless; fictitious; sham. [Slang or colloq.]
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Counterfeit; gaudy but worthless; sham.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Cheap and showy; meretricious.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. cheap and showy
  • noun. a city in central England; 2nd largest English city and an important industrial and transportation center
    • Word Usage
    "These picturesque rooms often contained "good finds" of the old Spanish furniture, and brass; but as a rule the dealers had long since bought up all the old things, replacing them by "brummagem," -- modern articles shining with cheap varnish."
    Equivalent
    tasteless  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    city  metropolis  urban center  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    allegoric  antiquarianism  antisocialist  ascend  byronism  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    counterfeit  gaud  sham  
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