Bauble

Word of the Day for Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Bauble \BAW-buhl\, noun:

1. a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2. a jester's sceptre.

 

 

 

From his pocket, he got out a small glittering bauble, carefully wrapped in translucent brown fibre.
-- Philip K. Dick, The World Jones Made, 1956

She had no temptation for such an action; as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
-- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein, 1818

Bauble is related to the Old French word bibelot, meaning "a small object of curiosity, beauty or rarity."

 

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