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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 ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms Translations knick-knack n → nette Kleinigkeit, Kinkerlitzchen nt; knick-knacks → Krimskrams m; (= figurines) → Nippes pl, → Nippsachen pl How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. Elsewhere the count found everything he required -- smelling-bottles, cigars, knick-knacks. 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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