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Gimcrack   Listen
noun
gimcrack  n.  
1.
A trivial mechanism; a device.
2.
A toy; a pretty thing; an ornamental object of no great value.
Synonyms: trinket, gewgaw, knickknack, tchotchke.






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"Gimcrack" Quotes from Famous Books



... find you a 'quiet little corner,'" he said, smiling; "but I don't see such a thing anywhere about. So I'll just place you on one of these gimcrack gilt chairs, and I'll ask you to keep this one next, for me, until I make a raid on the table. What ...
— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells

... stop with the moneyed classes. It descends to those who have nothing but their salary to live upon. It descends to the wives of clerks and shopmen. They, too, dress for respectability. They live beyond their means. They must live in gimcrack suburban villas, and "give parties." They must see what is going on at the theatres. Every farthing is spent so soon as earned,—sometimes before. The husband does not insure his life, and the wife runs into debt. If the man died to-morrow, he would leave his wife and children paupers. ...
— Thrift • Samuel Smiles

... Lilly. "I love this place, I love the cathedral and the tower. I love its pinkness and its paleness. The Gothic souls find fault with it, and say it is gimcrack and tawdry and cheap. But I love it, it is delicate and rosy, and the dark stripes are as they should be, like the tiger marks on a pink lily. It's a lily, not a rose; a pinky white lily with dark tigery ...
— Aaron's Rod • D. H. Lawrence

... sea. We'd no food nor drink but a tin o' preserved pears; Lord knows how that got there; but 'twas soon done. Pete had a small compass, a gimcrack affair hangin' to his watch-chain, an' we pulled by it west-sou'-west towards the nighest land, which we made out must be some one or another o' the Leeward Islands; but 'twas more to keep ourselves busy than for aught else: the boat was so ...
— The Delectable Duchy • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... that in all the endless pictures on the walls of the galleries in London, year after year exposed and disappearing like snow somewhere unseen, never has there appeared one with such a subject as this. Weak, feeble, mosaic, gimcrack, coloured tiles, and far-fetched compound monsters, artificial as the graining on a deal front door, they cannot be compared; it is the gingerbread gilt on a circus car to the column of a Greek temple. This is pure open air, grand ...
— The Toilers of the Field • Richard Jefferies



Words linked to "Gimcrack" :   tatty, nonsense, trumpery, decoration, brassy, tawdry, garish, folderal, flashy, gimcrackery, loud, meretricious, flash



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