Gewgaw

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  • noun. A decorative trinket; a bauble.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A showy trifle; a pretty thing of little worth; a toy; a bauble; a gaudy plaything or ornament.
  • noun. A pipe or flute.
  • noun. A Jew′ s-harp.
  • Showy, without substantial use or worth.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.
  • adjective. Showy; unreal; pretentious.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Showy; unreal; pretentious.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
    • Word Usage
    "For profit -- his life blood transmuted into a wine-supper, or a jewelled gewgaw, or some similar sense-orgy of the parasitic and idle rich, his masters, the arch-beasts. '"
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    adornment  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    anevent  bauble  chibouque  dishware  frippery  
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    a continental  a curse  a damn  a darn  a hoot  
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