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I would say we have this fight every few months when our house reaches peak knick-knackery and you are forced to part with items so that you can display new acquisitions.

From Slate • Feb. 20, 2018

I rather fancy not--they tell me he's as savage as an Arab about knick-knackery nowadays.

From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by Cooper, James Fenimore

On it the concierge was hoisting trunks, and into it was being heaped a promiscuous variety of knick-knackery and wearing apparel.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various

There is, however, a good, respectable look about the streets of the Old Town, and signs of solid business, notwithstanding the collections of knick-knackery and inharmonious plate-glass.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter