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Значения термина bric-à-brac на английском

Miscellaneous small ornamental objects which may be of sentimental value, but have little monetary value.

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Examples for "bric-a-brac"
Examples for "bric-a-brac"
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Then he saw the weird little glass statuette among the usual bric-a-brac.
The Perfectionists
2
Next to that was a bric-a-brac of odd items in a box.
Audrey's door
3
The prince who spoke had come to Paris solely to buy bric-a-brac.
Poor Relations
4
Rowland's sitting-room was encumbered with bric-a-brac, and she found plenty of occupation.
Roderick Hudson
5
Her room is one of the best and filled with books and bric-a-brac.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
Использование термина bric-à-brac на английском
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In the course of time, the bric-à-brac and the pictures showed wear.
Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
2
Nestling among the domestic bric-à-brac were a series of diminutive figurines.
Imajica: Complete Edition
3
You were beautiful, and you were frail; you were half goddess and half bric-à-brac.
Jurgen: A Comedy of Justice
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As though they were a sort of choice bric-à-brac.
The Beautiful and Damned
5
That's going some for a bit of breakable bric-à-brac.
Bought and Paid For; From the Play of George Broadhurst
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He has gone off with the vegetables and the bric-à-brac, and I think he is dissatisfied.
Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
7
Father Medicis dealt in all sorts of bric-à-brac.
International Short Stories: French
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Across the road from Man Mo, the antique dealers and bric-à-brac sellers of Cat Street are doing a modest trade.
BBC
9
Louis's desk became loaded with ornaments, his room at Mrs. Green's became filled with nearly Wedgwood vases, candlesticks, and other bric-à-brac.
Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories
10
It was packed stiff with rats, and with an extraordinary variety of bric-à-brac they had scavenged and built into dens and caves.
Non-Stop
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Although he was neat in a womanish way, the room he ruled over was heaped with lookers and miscellaneous bric-à-brac in disorderly fashion.
Non-Stop
12
A number of fine pictures hung on the walls, and richly bound books lay on the shirting tables amid pieces of rare bric-à-brac.
Gordon Keith
13
The others moved along, and Trennahan, seeing what was expected of him, brought a chair and elevated his feet among the Chinese bric-à-brac.
The Californians
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These bric-à-bracs were never allowed a peaceful day, a reposeful day, a restful Sabbath.
Autobiography of mark twain, vol. 1
15
'Tain't likely that she, being so long in a furrin country, has had much chance to go through the stores and pick out bric-à-brac.
The Best Short Stories of 1919, and the Yearbook of the American...
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