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Definition of Trinketries
1. trinketry [n] - See also: trinketry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Trinketries
Literary usage of Trinketries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"... sentimental expression, morbidness, elegant sensuality ; it even takes pleasure
sometimes in pictorial niceties and trinketries, entirely outside its ..."
2. Aesthetics; Or, The Science of Beauty by John Bascom (1867)
"... where to begin or where to end, it becomes obtrusive, changeable and detached,
and art passes into stage effect, — a fanciful shifting of trinketries. ..."
3. The Law of Likeness by D. Bates (1903)
"... and to substitute for its living principle, inanimate and unserviceable
trinketries ? Or the way of the world, which the Churches condone and sustain ? ..."
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