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Meanings of gewgaw in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "novelty"
Examples for "novelty"
1
The novelty is the pressure since 1989 from central and eastern Europe.
2
I shall add one more example for the sake of its novelty.
3
These short-term practice effects suggest changes in neural activity with stimulus novelty.
4
The present study evaluates whether phenotype may affect spontaneous, non-spatial novelty discrimination.
5
The novelty is all superficial; the tradition is all interior and profound.
1
Five minutes later the rat appeared, bearing the trinket in its mouth.
2
He took the trinket from her, turning it over in his fingers.
3
The only trinket which he had was the fragment of a sandwich.
4
There in the goblin's hands was the trinket from the duke's house.
5
Hastily he lowered the canoe again, and picked up the bright trinket.
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?
1
And that bangle was definitely on your right wrist the other night.
2
Sir, of course I shall take your advice and get a bangle.
3
Bishop Manning leaves, and Dr. Guthrie twirls a bangle on his nose.
4
He could remove the bangle, he supposed, just for a moment.
5
That rainbow titanium bangle, so snug now on his left wrist.
1
Passing through an archway, he found himself in the gaud of the flower-market.
2
And now L'Himby, a sometime city of meditation, reduced to gaud and rubble.
3
Blood and brains fly in a fan and decorate the doorframe with gaud.
4
She flushed first of all with a natural pleasure, the girl delighting in her gaud.
5
You are garbed like a herdsman, and you have not a gaud or a jewel to brighten you.
1
You wear this fallal on your head, I suppose?
2
I am suspicious of these shawls and fallals that Bundaboo seems full of.
3
That'll buy Mistress Fenton a few fallals if she's a mind for 'em.
4
Look at the backs here deformed by laces and fallals, she went on contemptuously.
5
He would have no finery and fallals, he said.
Usage of gewgaw in inglés
1
Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as a gewgaw.
2
Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw.
3
They'll give ten times the value for some little gewgaw to wear about 'em.
4
Such a glittering gewgaw, and not to be seen!
5
They spelled epiphany, gaberdine, ichthyology, gewgaw, kaleidoscope, and troubadour.
6
Strait a more foolish gewgaw comes in play:
7
There is no gewgaw or parade about him, as in some of your dandified young Agas.
8
The Maximiser is a cool little gewgaw that plugs in between your keyboard cable and your PC.
9
They built lots of homes and packed them with every new gewgaw a potential buyer might dream of.
10
Quite out of the gewgaw stage.
11
Tremendous numbers of trees, and stone teeth to guard them, and vines fruited with flowers in gewgaw colours.
12
At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet.
13
The crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,-theirambition and their spirit are undecayed!
14
The bad names, fool's play-thing, artful creature, painted bauble, gewgaw, speaking picture, are hard words for your poor Pamela!
15
The best efforts of twentieth-century biotechnology are nothing to him, mere cleverness, a gadget, gewgaw, half woman, half cuckoo clock.
16
Any little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily.
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