bauble
a showy, usually cheap, ornament; trinket; gewgaw.
a jester's scepter.
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How to use bauble in a sentence
We’d develop a dysfunctional relationship, a one-sided thing where I took care of it—groomed it, blew on it, looked lovingly at its shapes, hung colorful baubles on it—and it would remain obdurate.
Through shopping with one of these apps, the carbon footprint of that extra sweater, toy, or bauble can look a lot more real.
Holiday shopping deals are an environmental nightmare. Here’s how to avoid the trap. | Angely Mercado | December 6, 2021 | Popular-ScienceIn the time before Christmas, only hang a few light ornaments, and hold off on heavy baubles that drag down branches until the week of the holiday.
How to keep a Christmas tree fresh for as long as possible | Dan Seitz | November 29, 2021 | Popular-ScienceJustice is not some bauble to be sold to the highest bidder.
How Today’s World Can Help Us See That There’s More to the Ethel Rosenberg Story | Anne Sebba | June 9, 2021 | TimeThe chain’s advertising tactics shifted again in 1979, introducing the Happy Meal with its precious toy baubles.
The McDonald’s Commercials That Live in Our Minds, Rent Free | MM Carrigan | December 18, 2020 | Eater
For this apparently new and shiny one-state bauble is in fact a prudently discarded historical relic.
This would not include the occasional sapphire or emerald bauble, nor the gold or pearl necessities.
Finally I located and extracted the missing bauble, and with a triumphant whoop Elizabeth led me back into the waiting room.
Where I Found Elizabeth Taylor's Diamond Earring | Sandra McElwaine | March 24, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTDomino was a beautiful bauble, but its disappearance was a fairly minor loss to the wider culture.
The object had something of the form of a jester's bauble with points, which hung flabby and undulating.
Toilers of the Sea | Victor HugoA shout of laughter burst from the mob, and the clown flourished his bauble and bowed acknowledgments from side to side.
The Making of a Saint | William Somerset MaughamHis eyes dimmed as they conveyed to him the image of his still beloved Imperatorskoye—he pressed the bauble to his lips.
High Noon | AnonymousRising, Bon Vouloir, amid the exclamations of the court, claimed the privilege that went with the bauble.
Under the Rose | Frederic Stewart IshamNever anything but trouble has followed in the wake of that unhappy bauble of vanity since it first put in its appearance.
The Riddle of the Mysterious Light | Mary E. Hanshew
British Dictionary definitions for bauble
/ (ˈbɔːbəl) /
a showy toy or trinket of little value; trifle
a small, usually spherical ornament made of coloured or decorated material which is hung from the branches of a Christmas tree: Usual US name: Christmas ornament
(formerly) a mock staff of office carried by a court jester
Origin of bauble
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