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Knickknack   /nˈɪknˌæk/   Listen
Knickknack

noun
1.
A small inexpensive mass-produced article.  Synonym: novelty.
2.
Miscellaneous curios.  Synonyms: bric-a-brac, knickknackery, nicknack, whatnot.






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"Knickknack" Quotes from Famous Books



... chosen to consider it in the light of a bargain from a purchase at the sale of her goods. Here was her bed, her writing-table, her chair of authorship, desks, books, ornaments, water-colour sketches. And the drawing-room was fitted with her brackets and etageres, holding every knickknack she had possessed and scattered, small bronzes, antiques, ivory junks, quaint ivory figures Chinese and Japanese, bits of porcelain, silver incense-urns, dozens of dainty sundries. She had a shamed curiosity to spy for an omission of one ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith



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