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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A minor or unspecified object or article.
  2. n. A set of light, open shelves for ornaments.
  3. pro. Any of various additional or unspecified things or items: "family differences, differing social origins, and whatnot” ( George F. Kennan).

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A stand or set of shelves on which to keep or display small articles of curiosity or ornament, as well as books, papers, etc.; an étagère.
  2. n. Anything; no matter what; what you please. See what not, under what, A.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A small unspecified object; bric-a-brac (in plural)
  2. n. Other related objects or ideas.
  3. n. A freestanding set of shelves on which ornaments are displayed.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. A kind of stand, or piece of furniture, having shelves for books, ornaments, etc.; an étagère.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. miscellaneous curios

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