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Значения термина gewgaw на английском

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Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing.

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Использование термина gewgaw на английском
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Knowledge outside the day's work is regarded by most men as a gewgaw.
The Pleasures of Ignorance
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Then sprang into existence the tawdry, the common, the gewgaw.
Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 06 / Little J...
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They'll give ten times the value for some little gewgaw to wear about 'em.
Adrift in the Wilds; Or, The Adventures of Two Shipwrecked Boys
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Such a glittering gewgaw, and not to be seen!
The Last of the Mohicans
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They spelled epiphany, gaberdine, ichthyology, gewgaw, kaleidoscope, and troubadour.
Laddie: A True Blue Story
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Strait a more foolish gewgaw comes in play:
The Works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volume...
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There is no gewgaw or parade about him, as in some of your dandified young Agas.
Notes on a Journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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The Maximiser is a cool little gewgaw that plugs in between your keyboard cable and your PC.
Wired
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They built lots of homes and packed them with every new gewgaw a potential buyer might dream of.
Wired
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Quite out of the gewgaw stage.
Foundation
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Tremendous numbers of trees, and stone teeth to guard them, and vines fruited with flowers in gewgaw colours.
Iron Council
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At her disposal was wealth without stint, every luxury the soft could desire, every gewgaw the vain could covet.
What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05
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The crown of my fathers has shrunk into a gewgaw and a toy,-theirambition and their spirit are undecayed!
Zanoni
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The bad names, fool's play-thing, artful creature, painted bauble, gewgaw, speaking picture, are hard words for your poor Pamela!
Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded
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The best efforts of twentieth-century biotechnology are nothing to him, mere cleverness, a gadget, gewgaw, half woman, half cuckoo clock.
Soon I will be invincible
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Any little absurd gewgaw or gimcrack they had they disposed in such a way as to make it attract attention most readily.
The Innocents Abroad
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