nick-nack
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The offices of the management were on the first floor, and Henry was conducted thither and shown into Witherspoon's private apartment—into the calico, bombazine, hardware and universal nick-nack holy of holies.
From The Colossus A Novel by Read, Opie Percival
Everything became a nick-nack in this curious room.
From Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices by Dickens, Charles
We were asked to bestow any little trinket or nick-nack exposed to view.
From Across Asia on a Bicycle by Allen, Thomas Gaskell
A few plausible talking fellows created a buzz in the room, and the merits of some paltry nick-nack of mechanism or science was discussed.
From The Ayrshire Legatees, or, the Pringle family by Galt, John
It was a beautiful room we were in, all jalousied and curtained, all thoroughly tropical in appearance, while every nick-nack around us was mother’s—her work-box, writing-desk, books, everything.
From Wild Life in the Land of the Giants A Tale of Two Brothers by Stables, Gordon
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