knickknack

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• Sidonie was an 'etagere' covered with childish toys, petty, trivial knickknacks, microscopic fans, dolls 'tea-sets, gilded shoes, little shepherds and shepherdesses facing one another, exchanging cold, gleaming, porcelain glances. The French Immortals Series — Complete
• Beyond an oaken dressing-table, with an orderly litter of combs and brushes and dainty feminine knickknacks, there was no sign of its being used as a bedroom. Chapter XVIII
• I'm always drawn to the endless knickknacks in kitchenware departments. The Sun
• There was an old hair trunk in one corner, and a guitar-box in another, and all sorts of little knickknacks and jimcracks around, like girls brisken up a room with. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
• For them, skulls, gargoyles, devils, and gothic knickknacks are part of the decoration.
• You can already buy every kind of knickknack imaginable in Galveston, and if I wanted trinkets, baubles or other tchotchkes I would probably go down to the Strand. The Daily News - News
• The place was cluttered and cozy, filled with knickknacks and pets: a cageful of ornamental finches whose aimless twittering gave Joanna a whole new insight into the term "birdbrained"; Pella's two fat pugs about whom Joanna, a cat person, privately agreed with the Regent; and, to Joanna's great delight, a five-foot boa constrictor dozing in wintry torpor in a big glass cabinet built into the side of the chimney. The Silicon Mage
• Besides, too many knickknacks are more shabby than chic. Globe and Mail
• It was a glass table, with corners sharp enough to blunt a diamond, covered in every breakable variety of knickknack known to man.
• There are lots of ornaments and knickknacks. The Sun