knickknackery
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See also: knick-knackery
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
knick-knack + -ery
Noun[edit]
knickknackery (uncountable)
- Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
- 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 85:
- As Hortense says of the gilded knicknackery of her saloon,—
"Est-ce utile?
C'est plus, c'est nécessaire."