bauble
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: [ˈbɔːbəɫ]
- (Scots) IPA: [ˈbɒbəɫ]
- (America) IPA: /ˈbɔbəl/
- (cot-caught) IPA: /ˈbɑbəl/
- (America)
bauble (plural baubles)
- A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
- 1818, Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8
- 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.
- 1818, Mary W. Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus, Chapter 8
- A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
- A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
- (showy ornament) See also: Thesaurus:trinket
- French: babiole
- Italian: chincaglieria, cianfrusaglia
- Russian: безделу́шка
- Russian: шутовской жезл
- French: boule de Noël
- German: Christbaumkugel
- Russian: ёлочный шар
- Spanish: bola de navidad
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