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Definition of Bric-a-brac
1. Noun. Miscellaneous curios.
Generic synonyms: Curio, Curiosity, Oddity, Oddment, Peculiarity, Rarity
Definition of Bric-a-brac
1. Noun. Small ornaments and other miscellaneous items of little value. ¹
2. Noun. (alternative spelling of bric-a-brac) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bric-a-brac
Literary usage of Bric-a-brac
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Century Illustrated Monthly MagazineUnited States (1886)
"300 See also page 639. Narcissus in Camden. Poem. (Helen Gray Conel Bric-a-Brac
3... XXv.. 157 Napoleonic History, The New Phase of Walter A. Burlingame ..."
2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"A still more astonishing want of perception is shown by a hunter of literary
bric-a-brac, who calls the Song of the Kettle in the "Cricket on the Hearth ..."
3. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America by Seismological Society of America (1911)
"Crockery and bric-a-brac was broken in many houses, and plaster fell in some
instances. About twenty chimneys were badly cracked Duplex pendulum record of ..."
4. Music (1897)
"EDITORIAL bric-a-brac. It seems curious to me that certain distinguished American
musicians should have cared to go upon record as having "found out" ..."
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