Bauble

Quick meaning: Bauble is a noun meaning A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

Meaning

A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

More Meanings

1. (figurative, by extension) Anything trivial and worthless.
2. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
3. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

Example Sentences

Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

[…] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.

Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?

His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.

Word Forms

• baubles

Synonyms for bauble

Depending on context, synonyms include fallal, trinket, bangle, gewgaw, gaud, novelty.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include trinket, bangle, fallal, gewgaw, gaud, novelty.

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