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Meanings of bric-a-brac in английском
португальский
quinquilharias каталонский
menuderies Miscellaneous small ornamental objects which may be of sentimental value, but have little monetary value.
Synonyms
Examples for "whatnot"
Examples for "whatnot"
1
Here is a place for a campaign of education-Chautaquaand whatnot.
2
He went in to drag Grammer again before the whatnot, his mind sharpened to subtlety.
3
Why doesn't Don Loris simply give you so much a year, or week, or whatnot?
4
In one angle of the room austerely huddled a three-cornered "whatnot" of four shelves.
5
I'm going to go check on the ceremonial whosits and whatnots.
1
Flagg reached a knickknack shelf populated with a milky-green menagerie of jade animals.
2
When Molly's around, you're an inanimate knickknack until I say otherwise.
3
Every peso, every bar, every knickknack I have handled with my own hands.
4
Finally, the package will squeeze in an interesting knickknack, a Crow T. Robot figurine.
5
She is not worth more than any piece of emptiness, any trifle, or knickknack.
1
A little silk, a few weapons, a curiosity, a nicknack, comprise my stock.
2
P.S.-Anelectrical machine, and a number of little nicknacks connected with it, Mr. Calvert has.-"Write"
3
'You, Miss Swancourt, would not, under such circumstances, have preferred the nicknacks?'
4
Then we should be ashamed of the work by which we must make money to pay for all these nicknacks.
5
"I have these few nicknacks," added the stranger, producing a bundle tied in his pocket-handkerchief.
Usage of bric-a-brac in английском
1
Then he saw the weird little glass statuette among the usual bric-a-brac.
2
Next to that was a bric-a-brac of odd items in a box.
3
The prince who spoke had come to Paris solely to buy bric-a-brac.
4
Rowland's sitting-room was encumbered with bric-a-brac, and she found plenty of occupation.
5
Her room is one of the best and filled with books and bric-a-brac.
6
Would feel uncomfortable to go in a house filled with furniture or bric-a-brac.
7
The natural bric-a-brac that crowds our window-sills leaves little room for fussy housekeeping.
8
All paintings and bric-a-brac were evenly spaced in perfectly straight rows.
9
It WAS the parlor- aroomof sofas, pianos, big easy-chairs ,andluxurious bric-a-brac.
10
It makes our pretentious homes look like cheap bric-a-brac, Dorothy declared.
11
Over and over they rolled, breaking furniture, overturning and smashing bric-a-brac.
12
His mate searched her luggage, scattering clothing, shoes, and parasols like cheap bric-a-brac.
13
Mrs. Armour turned to the mantel and seemed tremulously engaged in arranging some bric-a-brac.
14
Tables and shelves lined the walls, covered in wizardly bric-a-brac.
15
Thin men will devote themselves to obelisks, church spires, factory chimneys, and artistic bric-a-brac.
16
He polished everything relentlessly, even the bric-a-brac he picked up off the musical street.
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