bauble

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  1. noun A small, showy ornament of little value; a trinket.
  2. noun Archaic A mock scepter carried by a court jester.

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  • She wanted to see herself as a bauble, a precious treasure, an equal player in an erotic game. —  UglyAmericans
  • The walker showed no awareness continuing toward the baggage train where the bauble was to be stored with the other luggage. —  VANCE MOORE
  • "This bauble is some reward for our hardships," he smiled, holding up the glittering chain. —  Michael Moorcock and James Cawthorn - Kings in Darkness
  • Logically, to refuse the bauble is the correct action. —  CommanderBond.net
  • "You could easily put a different coloured stocking on each leg, cut sheets of tissue paper to make a short, frilled, sticking-out skirt, borrow the toasting-fork from the kitchen and hang it with ribbons for your bauble, and there you are Jolly!" —  The New Girl at St. Chad's A Story of School Life
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trinket ·  knickknack ·  tinsel ·  finery ·  gewgaw ·  earring ·  jewelry ·  trappings ·  plaything ·  gimcrack ·  pinchbeck ·  locket

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bauble:   baubles
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  1. Middle English babel, from Old French, plaything.

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  1. Early modern English bable, babel, from Middle English bable, babylle, babulle, babel, from Old French babel, baubel (with diminutive baubelet, beubelet, later early Middle English beaubelet), a child's toy, plaything, trinket. Origin doubtful; cf. modern F. babiole, a toy, gewgaw, Italian babbola, a toy, apparently connected with Italian babbeo, a fool, blockhead (babbano, silly), = Provencal baban, a fool, from Middle Latin babulus, a babbler, fool. Cf. babble. The forms, if from the same source, show imitative variation. Bauble in this sense was early confused with bauble, apparently of different origin.
  2. from bauble, n.
  3. Early modern English bable, babel, from Middle English bable, babulle, babel, a fool's mace, also (apparently the same word) a stick with a heavy weight at the end, used for weighing, from Middle English babelen, bablen, waver, swing to and fro, apparently a freq. form from same source as bab, bob. Bauble may thus be regarded as for *bobble. But the word was early confused with bauble, q. v.
 

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