brimborion

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I think I have heard something like that preached from the pulpit of the Recollets Matter of brimborion, Chevalier!

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  1. A trifling object kept as a charm or gewgaw; a trifle: as, “handing brimborions, baubles, knickknacks,” etc. Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, III. 8.

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  • I think I have heard something like that preached from the pulpit of the Recollets Matter of brimborion, Chevalier! —  The Golden Dog
  • "Matter of brimborion, Chevalier! not to be questioned by laymen! —  The Golden Dog
 

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  1. Also brimborium. F. brimborion, a bauble, a gewgaw, formerly one of a series of prayers that were mumbled over. Old French breborion, perhaps a corruption of Middle Latin breviarium, a breviary: see breviary. Cf. the etymology of bead.
 

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