bauble
Meaning
- A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
- Anything trivial and worthless.
- A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
- A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
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Pronounced as (IPA)
[ˈbɔːbəɫ]
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).
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