gimcrack
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Origin of gimcrack
1325–75 for earlier sense; Middle English gib ( e ) crake; compare Middle English gibben to waver (< Old French giber to shake)
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George Stubbs's Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath, with a Trainer, a Stable-Lad, and a Jockey, fetched the same in 2011.
From BBC • Jul. 3, 2012
The portrait of the race horse Gimcrack standing on the grounds of Newmarket Hall was commissioned by an English aristocrat, Frederick St. John, later 2nd Viscount Bolingbroke.
From New York Times • Sep. 7, 2011
By a tradition established centuries ago, the honour of giving the speech falls to the owner of the first horse in the Gimcrack Stakes, won by Wentworth's Caspar Netscher on Friday.
From The Guardian • Aug. 21, 2011
"Gimcrack On Newmarket Heath, With A Trainer, A Stable-lad, And A Jockey" depicts one of the most famous and successful horses of the day.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 6, 2011
Here, for example, is one-hundred-to-eight offered against Pincushion for the Gimcrack Stakes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, July 7th, 1920 by Various
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