Bric-a-brac

Quick meaning: Bric-a-brac is a noun meaning Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.

Meaning

Small ornaments and other miscellaneous display items of little value.

More Meanings

1. (by extension) Any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items; a hodgepodge, an olio.

Example Sentences

Haven't an affair in the world, […] except a quarrel with a bric-à-brac man.

Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and bric-à-brac, but likable.

The palace of Versailles has been turned into a bricabrac shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.

Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and bric-a-brac and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of [Robert] Browning and [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow and art?

Word Forms

• bricabrac

Synonyms for bric-a-brac

Depending on context, synonyms include brickety-brack, knick-knacks, bauble, novelty, fandangle, fangle.

Antonyms for bric-a-brac

Common opposites include valuables, treasures.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include whatnot, knickknackery, knickknack, nicknack, bondieuserie, bracteate.

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