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Significados de gimcrack (gimcracks) em inglês

Tastelessly showy.

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      Ornamental objects of no great value.

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          Examples for "nonsense"
          1
          Her intuitive capacity was impressive, along with her no-nonsense approach to conflict.
          Map of bones
          2
          Meanwhile, Glynnis Breytenbach brings her no-nonsense approach to the Shadow Justice Ministry.
          The South African
          3
          This is all the greatest nonsense I ever heard in the world.
          The Prime Minister
          4
          Of course what she said was the greatest nonsense in the world.
          The Eustace Diamonds
          5
          It is all nonsense, of course; just foolish talk of the villagers.
          Dear Brutus
          1
          Some cases of trumpery rosaries were found and dispatched the same way.
          Exiled for the Faith: A Tale of the Huguenot Persecution
          2
          This trumpery business with the cigarette revolutionised my whole feelings towards Boyce.
          The Red Planet
          3
          Poor boy, his wife has quite forgotten him and his trumpery love.
          The Little White Bird; Or, Adventures in Kensington Gardens
          4
          Well, there's been a lot of trouble over a trumpery wooden idol.
          A Master of Fortune: Being Further Adventures of Captain Kettle
          5
          What does he do with all his rhetorical trumpery at such times?
          Flamsted quarries
          1
          The front has a deep frill tacked on all around the chair.
          St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1...
          2
          A tuft of pink frill escaped from one side of the gag.
          Storm Front
          3
          Nothing might she wear but her plain black frock and white frill.
          The Late Miss Hollingford
          4
          I had an embroidered frill and very fine ruffles of point d'Alencon.
          The Lock and Key Library: the Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
          5
          Round its hilt was a frill of paper, on which was scrawled:
          A Tale of Two Cities
          1
          The great Mr. Acton taken in by a bit of Palais Royal gimcrackery!
          The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories:...
          2
          The resulting object, made with thought and care, was intended as a soulful reproach to the gimcrackery of industrialised batch production.
          The Guardian
          3
          "The gimcrackery," he answered.
          A Hazard of New Fortunes — Volume 1
          4
          "A man who can kiss a woman's hands like that is at liberty to clear the whole house of gimcrackery."
          Septimus
          Uso de gimcracks em inglês
          1
          About antiquities, the old gimcracks that people pay so much for today.
          The Aspern Papers
          2
          Let me know if the gimcracks come safe- Imeanthe book, etc.
          Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10)
          3
          My girl is taking me out shopping, to buy gimcracks and things!
          Cruel As The Grave
          4
          The gimcracks he loved to make were all for the public rooms below.
          The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
          5
          Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts.
          Vanity Fair
          6
          Japan wanted neither the friendship of Russia nor her gimcracks.
          Rezanov
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          Such fugitive gimcracks as they had brought away with them decorated the little salon.
          The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family
          8
          Golden eyes focused like lenses over winking jewels and gimcracks.
          The Door Through Space
          9
          Expectation interspersed with gimcracks seems to be the programme.
          Gala-Days
          10
          Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the gimcracks.
          The Brownies and Other Tales
          11
          Lashmar stretched his legs, smiled at the gimcracks shelved and niched above the mantelpiece, and began talking.
          Our Friend the Charlatan
          12
          There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their gimcracks and trumpery.
          George Cruikshank
          13
          But me and the Judge was sure we could round up a wagonful of candidates for your gimcracks.
          Heart of the West
          14
          We men want space, not gimcracks.
          The Brentons
          15
          Mebby the young lady in thar kin show me the things and tell me the names of yer Yankee gimcracks.
          Darkness and Daylight: A Novel
          16
          These serve as playthings for the grown-ups, many of whom, especially the Indians and Eskimos, are quite childlike with gimcracks.
          The Story of Grenfell of the Labrador: A Boy's Life of Wilfred T...
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