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bric-a-brac

NOUN
  1. miscellaneous curios

How To Use bric-a-brac In A Sentence

  • All saleable items would be greatly appreciated, including furniture, delph and bric-a-brac (no clothes).
  • Stalls selling everything from books and bric-a-brac to cakes and crafts will be on the agenda, as well as games, a tombola and a raffle.
  • France grew up on a farm much like the one she describes, and paints a picture of bucolic pastures concealing a stagnant community of unresolved resentments where the same pieces of bric-a-brac circulate the jumble sales and the postmistress runs a secret information network to rival that of any South American dictator. Hill Farm by Miranda France – review
  • Auctions aren't so much funerals as autopsies, where you really do get to rummage through the personal bric-a-brac.
  • It is a mini-encyclopedia of bric-a-brac and unconsidered trifles, ranging from apostle jugs to wine and sauce labels.
  • She saw the local women in their flowered overalls and carpet slippers, heavy wedding rings sunk into their bulbous toil-scarred fingers, their eyes bright in amorphous faces, as they sat gossiping beside their prams of second-hand clothes; the young people, joyfully garbed, squatting on the kerbstone behind their stalls of bric-a-brac; the tourists cheerfully impulsive or cautious and discerning by turns, conferring over their dollars or displaying their bizarre treasures. She Closed Her Eyes
  • Gerry and Cynthia Bridgwood are being spooked by a phantom benefactor - who spirits gifts of bric-a-brac into their Cheshire country pub.
  • While away the hours browsing for books, CDs, games, retro clothing, bric-a-brac.
  • From its original LP release in 1973, Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" has ballooned to the six audio and video discs plus bric-a-brac such as marbles and replica tour tickets included in the recently released "Immersion Box Set" version of the album. Snapshot
  • Fort Street is awash with rare coins and stamps, old silver, and all manner of bric-a-brac
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