We are using cookies
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
This website uses cookies in order to offer you the most relevant information. By browsing this website, you accept these cookies.
Did you know?
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
You can double click on a word to look it up on TermGallery.
Meanings of bauble in English
Catalan
requincalla Spanish
dije Synonyms
Examples for "trifle"
Examples for "trifle"
1
Never less than clear, but... perhaps... perfectly clear but a trifle sketchy?
2
Poppy is a trifle more particular about the soil it grows in.
3
Sometimes I think he stretches the limits of the law a trifle.
4
The sole of the shoe was a trifle larger than the footprints.
5
Blanche leaned back in the steamer chair and turned a trifle pale.
1
She opened the dining-room door, and found the bagatelle-board on the table.
2
He pressed a second spring, and a bagatelle-table appeared in the same fashion.
3
The cut is a bagatelle, monsieur, and I must to the road again.
4
Beside it burglary was a bagatelle, but one to deprecate none the less.
5
To me the sum seemed immense, but he regarded it as a bagatelle.
Usage of bauble in English
1
Meanwhile, up the road, the actor Joanna Lumley wants a different bauble.
2
The auctioneer held in his hand a gaudy bauble of worldly pleasure.
3
Her black eyes gleamed with triumph at the sight of the bauble.
4
One last, feeble flicker, and the stone was merely a bauble again.
5
Would either of us have brought it here, like some valueless bauble?
6
A discomforting thought, still I toy with it, like a shiny-dangerous bauble.
7
She's not going to like what she did with that beautiful bauble.
8
For what is a lavish bauble but sight to behold and marvel?
9
You took my son's heart, and broke it, but that's a bauble.
10
Well, we would be idiots to fall for a bauble like that.
11
Liverpool used to regard the League Cup as an insignificant bauble.
12
Lewis could see a hemispherical bauble of light glinting on the horizon ahead.
13
Did my brother convince you that a mere bauble would actually harm me?
14
Suffer this plainness; I might be your bauble to-day, and your chain to-morrow.
15
It's some bauble from the Elder Age, all bound up in heathen runes.
16
And the glam he carried-thattantalizing bauble-washers for the taking.
About this term
Frequent collocations
More collocations
Bauble through the time
Bauble across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common