bric-a-brac

Examples

• All

• Here are more palms and ferns, rich European fittings, and Eastern bric-a-brac.

  Blog text (22)

• Miranda's partner said they spent $2 million on all the couches, chandeliers, and bric-a-brac.

  Blog text (8)

• We were thankful for its decorative bric-a-brac, but that was it.

  Academic text (2008)

• You'd be even more cozy if you kept all this bric-a-brac up there with you.

  Cinderella (2015)

• We sit in his spacious living room filled with the bric-a-brac and mementos of a marathon, illustrious musical career.

  Fiction book (2001)

• A wall of bookcases, plants on the windowsills, a Colonial dry sink which served as a bar, bric-a-brac he'd gathered on trips abroad, good paintings.

  Fiction book (1991)

• Martin Gaite portrays cramped interiors composed of small rooms jammed with furniture and bric-a-brac.

  Academic text (1997)

• Her wraps were removed, and she was shown into a very feminine parlor displaying every kind of bric-a-brac, where a cheery coal fire blazed a welcome.

  Fiction book (1990)

• The small table was filled with bric-a-brac like antique figurines and colorful trinkets.

• Her shelf was adorned with bric-a-brac, including vintage postcards and handmade pottery.

Synonyms

K

knickknack

vsbric-a-brac

14 4.2

A small cheap object people keep to decorate a home

is valued for sentimental or ornamental reasons rather than low monetary worth

B

bauble

vsbric-a-brac

13 6.7

A small, cheap piece of jewelry worn for decoration

is mainly kept and collected for sentimental or ornamental display

N

nicknack

vsbric-a-brac

1 7.0

A small object kept for decoration rather than use

focuses more on sentimental value than pure ornamentation

B

bibelot

vsbric-a-brac

• Literature

1 9.9

A small decorative object like a tiny ornament kept for its beauty rather than for use

emphasizes sentimental collecting value rather than just beauty

T

trumpery

vsbric-a-brac

• Archaic

1 9.9

Cheap objects that look nice but have little value

is used for items valued for sentiment or ornament rather than dismissed as worthless

W

whatnot

vsbric-a-brac

• Archaic

1 7.6

A small shelf or stand that holds little decorations

focuses on items kept for sentimental or ornamental value rather than mere miscellany

K

knickknackery

vsbric-a-brac

1 9.4

A group of small pretty objects like ornaments or souvenirs

treats items as a grouped assortment rather than individual sentimental keepsakes

How Decorative

decorative

48 3.9

bric-a-brac

4 8.7

curio

7 8.4

Surface Forms

Etymology