OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 19255

trinket

/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
oropel • perendengue
A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.
James [II] ordered an estimate to be made of the cost of such a procession, and found that it would amount to about half as much as he proposed to expend in covering his wife [Mary…
That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
baratija • chunche • chácharas • perendengue
A thing of little value; a toy, a trifle.
It’s only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.
There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty…
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