Word Meanings - BAWBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A trinket. See Bauble.

TRINKETER
One who trinkets.
TRINKETRY
Ornaments of dress; trinkets, collectively. No trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. Southey.
BAUBLE
It. babbola, LL. baubellum gem, jewel, L. babulus,a baburrus, 1. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod. Sheridan. 2. The fool's
TRINKET
A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands. Hakluyt.