Meanings of kickshaw in English

In the "Sunday in London,"* Monsieur the Chef is instructing a kitchen-maid how to compound some rascally French kickshaw or the other- aprettyscoundrel truly!

All the pretty, tiny little kickshaws of Gotham had once been his.

I'll pay for the trees, shrubs, and kickshaws in the gardens and lawns.

Suddenly Mrs. Kickshaw reached down and grabbed Cirrus by the collar.

No cakes, no pastry kickshaws, and only wheaten bread enough for absolute necessity.

My wife must eat plain food, and I don't love kickshaws.

Look what they pay for their silks and satins and kickshaws and silly furbelows!

It's Mrs. Kickshaw you ought to be worried about.

The crestfallen look on Mrs. Kickshaw's face, however, tells him that she has guessed it.

Mrs. Kickshaw was in the garden, ringing the bell.

Mrs. Kickshaw shook her head and wiped her brow.

At sight of these kickshaws a dismal suspicion entered Mahony's mind, and refused to be dislodged.

Spent all you had for cakes and kickshaws in the towns where the stage-coach stopped, I'll warrant.

A girl with a mutinous expression and ghastly hair-thevictim of another of Mrs. Kickshaw's haircuts-staredback.

And who was to say that Mrs. Kickshaw, outside looking for him now, would not want it, too?

No one shall be stinted in Walter Ashton's house; but I'll not away with any of your outlandish kickshaws.