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knick-knack

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knick-knack, nick-nack [ˈnɪkˌnæk]
n
1. a cheap ornament; trinket
2. an ornamental article of furniture, dress, etc.
[by reduplication from knack, in obsolete sense: toy]
knick-knackery , nick-nackery n
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knick-knack
noun trinket, trifle, plaything, bauble, bric-a-brac, bagatelle, gimcrack, gewgaw, bibelot, kickshaw Her flat is spilling over with knick-knacks.
Translations
knick-knack [ˈnɪknæk] N → chuchería f, chisme m
knick-knack [ˈnɪknæk] n → colifichet m
knick-knack
n → nette Kleinigkeit, Kinkerlitzchen nt; knick-knacks → Krimskrams m; (= figurines) → Nippes pl, → Nippsachen pl
knick-knack [ˈnɪkˌnæk] n → ninnolo
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When she went into Kitty's little room, a pretty, pink little room, full of knick-knacks in vieux saxe, as fresh, and pink, and white, and gay as Kitty herself had been two months ago, Dolly remembered how they had decorated the room the year before together, with what love and gaiety.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Elsewhere the count found everything he required -- smelling-bottles, cigars, knick-knacks.
The Count of Monte Cristo by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Here voyageurs frolicked away their wages, fiddling and dancing in the booths and cabins, buying all kinds of knick-knacks, dressing themselves out finely, and parading up and down, like arrant braggarts and coxcombs.
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