gewgaw

• It happens one of them gives him a buzz one day to identify a guest at the Corona Hotel who is being most careless with a very fine gewgaw, in fact a diamond bracelet, leaving it draped, bunched, and cast down here and there about her rooms most imprudently So naturally," Peewee says, "I beat it quickly to this joint to see for myself. —  AHMM,May2006
• That's just a gewgaw, plain and simple, a bauble, a trinket, a trifle. —  F ;SF; - vol 099 issue 06 - December 2000
• But, although their bodies were in durance vile, their eyes could roam covetously to a showy trinket on the broad bosom of some buxom good-wife, or a gewgaw that hung from the neck of a red-cheeked lass Ha!" —  Under the Rose
• When she gave me this gewgaw," added he, flourishing the purse in his hand, "she told me a pretty tissue about a fair friend of hers, whose music-master, mistaking some condescension on her part, had dared to press her snowy fingers while directing them towards a tender chord on her harp. —  Thaddeus of Warsaw
• But to enter into a vile intrigue with the amiable gewgaw, to favour her escape in so base a manner, (to say nothing of his disgraceful practices against me, in Sir Simon Darnford's family, of which Sir Simon himself has informed me), is a conduct that, instead of preferring the ungrateful wretch, as I had intended, shall pull down upon him utter ruin Monsieur Colbrand, my trusty Swiss, will obey you without reserve, if my other servants refuse As for her denying that she encouraged his declaration, I believe it not. —  Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded

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