bricabrac

• I had a curious instance of the honesty of the Mussulman in a dealer in bricabrac, embroideries, and stuffs with whom I used to deal at Candia. —  The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II
• I've no taste for bricabrac. " —  Ballads
• It was an old affair, -- with armor and a picture-gallery, -- and bricabrac. —  Tales of Trail and Town
• Look up at the lofty roof, which we willingly pardon for shutting out the heaven above us, -- at least in an average London day; look down at the floor and think of what precious relics it covers; but do not look around you with the hope of getting any clear, concentrated, satisfying effect from this great museum of gigantic funereal bricabrac. —  Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
• The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop of late years, and its time-honored walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on. —  The Paris Sketch Book

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