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Meanings of bauble in anglès

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requincalla
espanyol
dije

Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing.

requincalla

An unsubstantial thing.

An ornament that is hung on a Christmas tree.

Christmas tree ornament.

Usage of bauble in anglès
1
Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
The Guardian
2
The auctioneer held in his hand a gaudy bauble of worldly pleasure.
Mr. World and Miss Church-Member: A Twentieth Century Allegory
3
Her black eyes gleamed with triumph at the sight of the bauble.
City of Endless Night
4
One last, feeble flicker, and the stone was merely a bauble again.
To the blight: the eye of the world
5
Would either of us have brought it here, like some valueless bauble?
Runemarks
6
A discomforting thought, still I toy with it, like a shiny-dangerous bauble.
Existence
7
She's not going to like what she did with that beautiful bauble.
Darkness revealed
8
For what is a lavish bauble but sight to behold and marvel?
Rhyme and Reason Volume Two
9
You took my son's heart, and broke it, but that's a bauble.
V. V.'s Eyes
10
Well, we would be idiots to fall for a bauble like that.
The Guardian
11
Liverpool used to regard the League Cup as an insignificant bauble.
The Irish Times
12
Lewis could see a hemispherical bauble of light glinting on the horizon ahead.
The Reality Dysfunction
13
Did my brother convince you that a mere bauble would actually harm me?
Darkness revealed
14
Suffer this plainness; I might be your bauble to-day, and your chain to-morrow.
Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2
15
It's some bauble from the Elder Age, all bound up in heathen runes.
Runemarks
16
And the glam he carried-thattantalizing bauble-washers for the taking.
Runemarks
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Translations for bauble
espanyol
dije
Bauble through the time
Bauble across language varieties
United Kingdom
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United States of America
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