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Bauble

/[ˈbɔːbəɫ]/ noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.

    "[…] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her."

  2. 2
    cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing wordnet
  3. 3
    Anything trivial and worthless. broadly, figuratively

    "His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter."

  4. 4
    a mock scepter carried by a court jester wordnet
  5. 5
    A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
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  1. 6
    A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

Etymology

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

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