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Значения термина gimcrack (gimcracks) на английском

Tastelessly showy.

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      Ornamental objects of no great value.

          Использование термина gimcracks на английском
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          About antiquities, the old gimcracks that people pay so much for today.
          The Aspern Papers
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          Let me know if the gimcracks come safe- Imeanthe book, etc.
          Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 5 (of 10)
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          My girl is taking me out shopping, to buy gimcracks and things!
          Cruel As The Grave
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          The gimcracks he loved to make were all for the public rooms below.
          The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
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          Her husband bade her buy laces, millinery, jewels, and gimcracks of all sorts.
          Vanity Fair
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          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
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          Golden eyes focused like lenses over winking jewels and gimcracks.
          The Door Through Space
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          Expectation interspersed with gimcracks seems to be the programme.
          Gala-Days
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          Now teach me that dance, and I will patch up all the rest of the gimcracks.
          The Brownies and Other Tales
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          Lashmar stretched his legs, smiled at the gimcracks shelved and niched above the mantelpiece, and began talking.
          Our Friend the Charlatan
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          There they march in state, and a pretty contempt our artist shows for all their gimcracks and trumpery.
          George Cruikshank
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          But me and the Judge was sure we could round up a wagonful of candidates for your gimcracks.
          Heart of the West
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          We men want space, not gimcracks.
          The Brentons
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          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
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          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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