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Meanings of bauble in English

Catalan
requincalla
Spanish
dije

Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing.

requincalla

An unsubstantial thing.

An ornament that is hung on a Christmas tree.

Christmas tree ornament.

Synonyms
Examples for "christmas bauble"
Examples for "christmas bauble"
1
Not the white of a blank page, but the sparkling silver of a Christmas bauble.
Solar
2
Kimberly Peirce's startling debut opens with a loving shot of car headlights refracted into fat, shimmering Christmas baubles; blurred but beautiful.
The Guardian
3
Like a very loud and flamboyant Christmas bauble, tradition demands our attention at this time of year, no matter where we are in the world.
The Irish Times
4
The range now includes colourful scarves, hats, slippers and bags, as well as accessories including cushions, oven gloves, Christmas baubles and small toys for children.
The Irish Times
Usage of bauble in English
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
Spanish
dije
Bauble through the time
Bauble across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common