bric-a-brac

• “The cafe is dark with wood panels, a low bar with a mirrored rear wall, loads of ancient bric-a-brac, and pictures and maps of old Spandau, which was already a sizable town back when Berlin was a mere pup of a village.”

  The Guardian: Around Berlin in 80 beers

• “There are two large main bars with nooks and crannies leading off, all cluttered with ancient bric-a-brac.”

  The Guardian: Around Berlin in 80 beers

• “They were forced to commute from building to building in bright orange inflatable life rafts taken from the airplanes, rowing past floating office equipment and assorted military bric-a-brac.”

  Simon & Schuster: A Covert Affair

• “This is not some cheesy fair for selling bric-a-brac.”

  Fun Event in Chapala at the Yacht Club

• “And besides, it did not seem reasonable that he should be right — he who had stood, so short a time before, in that same living room, blushing and awkward, acknowledging his introduction, looking fearfully about him at the bric-a-brac his swinging shoulders threatened to break, asking how long since”

  Chapter 24

• “From its original LP release in 1973, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has ballooned to the six audio and video discs plus bric-a-brac such as marbles and replica tour tickets included in the recently released "Immersion Box Set" version of the album.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Snapshot

• “And seeing those rooms through her eyes, with their rugs and fireplaces and bric-a-brac, Alessandro grimaced and bowed his head.”

  Simon & Schuster: Three Stages of Amazement

• “PLUS DON'T MISS San Telmo Market | Browse this flea market for high-class bric-a-brac. mercadodesantelmo.com Recoleta Cemetery | Grand old families and military heroes lie entombed in mini pantheons of every imaginable architectural style.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Buenos Aires

• “Once an enclave of inexpensive clothing emporiums and burrito stands, it's now a crowded pastiche of ethnic cafes, peppered with stores offering out-of-print books and hand-made bric-a-brac, all colorfully cloaked within this vibrant Latin community.”

  The Huffington Post: Red Room: Pam Tent: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hat: Why San Francisco Is It for Me

• “France grew up on a farm much like the one she describes, and paints a picture of bucolic pastures concealing a stagnant community of unresolved resentments where the same pieces of bric-a-brac circulate the jumble sales and the postmistress runs a secret information network to rival that of any South American dictator.”

  The Guardian: Hill Farm by Miranda France – review

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