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bi·be·lot  (bb-l, b-bl)
n.
1. A small decorative object; a trinket.
2. A miniature book, especially one that is finely crafted.

[French, from Old French beubelet, from a reduplication of bel, beautiful, from Latin bellus, handsome; see belle.]

bibelot [ˈbɪbləʊ (French) biblo]
n
1. an attractive or curious trinket
2. a miniature book
[from French, from Old French beubelet, perhaps from a reduplication of bel beautiful]


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Exchanged the lowbrow books on the night table for better ones, reconsidered the bibelots, removed some of the items from the medicine cabinet, and put out better kitchen towels?
Some Grima bibelots are fabulously naff, some will always be witty, such as the "gin and tonic" with glass and booze carved from rock crystal, garnished with a lemon slice of yellow diamonds.
Indeed, those paintings still project the aura of the atelier (or rather, its vaunted mythology), precisely because they are not the mass-produced bibelots that have garnered Murakami a fan base outside the art world.
 
 
 
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