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Definition of the day : « gewgaw »

  • noun novelty
Example sentences :
  • Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw.
  • Extract from : « The Gentle Art of Making Enemies » by James McNeill Whistler
  • And all of them with some gewgaw to be blessed in the Virgin's bowl.
  • Extract from : « A Little Pilgrimage in Italy » by Olave M. (Olave Muriel) Potter
  • Some of them have been won by a mess of pottage, a mere bauble or a gewgaw.
  • Extract from : « Prisons and Prayer: Or a Labor of Love » by Elizabeth Ryder Wheaton
  • To the gewgaw fetters of rhyme (invented by the monks to enslave the people) I have a rooted objection.
  • Extract from : « Rejected Addresses » by James Smith
  • At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet.
  • Extract from : « What Will He Do With It, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Gimcrack, jim′krak, n. a toy: a gewgaw: a trivial mechanism—also Jim′crack.
  • Extract from : « Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) » by Various
  • Compare it for a moment with the gewgaw skimble-skamble diplomatic sensationalism with which we have been presented since.
  • Extract from : « The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 » by Various
  • The crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,—their ambition and their spirit are undecayed.
  • Extract from : « Zicci, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
  • Here again the gewgaw of royal parade was intended to entrap the admiration of the ignorant.
  • Extract from : « Secret History of the Court of England, from the Accession of George the Third to the Death of George the Fourth, Volume I (of 2) » by Lady Anne Hamilton
  • Everything was in its proper place, not an ornament missing; not a gewgaw disturbed.
  • Extract from : « Wanted: A Cook » by Alan Dale