costume jewellery
Britishnoun
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Perhaps it is not surprising, then, that he also believed in what he called "costume jewellery for the home": objects with little apparent practical use, including a decorated ostrich egg and an enormous wooden salmon.
From BBC • Sep. 8, 2017
Good | Van Badham It was the former PM himself saying that young women were now living in “the post-feminist period” – but open up that box and it was full of cheap costume jewellery.
From The Guardian • Dec. 9, 2015
What does he really think about some hairy-footed halfling and a bunch of do-gooders throwing his best costume jewellery into a volcano?
From The Guardian • Jun. 18, 2015
Robin Cook used to buy large costume jewellery brooches for US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright every Christmas.
From BBC • May 14, 2013
His 40 workers snip, mould and bake plastic into costume jewellery items that end up on shelves in Britain.
From BBC • May 16, 2012
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