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- noun Plural form of
gew-gaw .
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Examples
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It's the only thing worth living for, worth fighting for, worth dying for—not all of your crinoline dresses and gew-gaws and frippery.
The First Apartment: A Rite of Passage Con Chapman 2011
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We would have dropped a couple of thousand pounds on hotel, food, gew-gaws, taxi rides, and sight-seeing all over town.
Heathrow admits chaos will carry on for days as more snow is forecast 2010
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We would have dropped a couple of thousand pounds on hotel, food, gew-gaws, taxi rides, and sight-seeing all over town.
Heathrow admits chaos will carry on for days as more snow is forecast 2010
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The latest entry in this wacky world of weird: a couple is brutally attacked in their swanky New York City loft, the crime scene littered with feathered gew-gaws and voodoo trinkets, the walls finger-painted with blood.
Archive 2009-08-01 Paul 2009
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The latest entry in this wacky world of weird: a couple is brutally attacked in their swanky New York City loft, the crime scene littered with feathered gew-gaws and voodoo trinkets, the walls finger-painted with blood.
"Cemetery Dance" by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Grand Central Publishing) Paul 2009
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Why is simpler clothing more expensive than clothing with hideous gew-gaws all over it?
Archive 2008-07-01 Susan Palwick 2008
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Why is simpler clothing more expensive than clothing with hideous gew-gaws all over it?
Doing My Part to Stimulate the Economy Susan Palwick 2008
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In place of imported gew-gaws and re-giftables, manic shopping and depression, this alternative also liberates us in other ways.
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A black-and-white world nowadays is vacuous and often insulting, with all nuance lost in the rigidity of pre-sharpened saws and crackpot sound bytes presented like precious family gew-gaws.
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Were this money employed by the sovereign in importing spices from India, coffee from Mocha, English and Arabian horses, silks from the Levant, and gew-gaws from China, it is clear that in a few years there would not remain a single sous in the kingdom.
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