Synonyms for bauble

Grammar : Noun

Spell : baw-buhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈbɔ bəl

Définition of bauble

Origin : "showy trinket or ornament," early 14c., from Old French baubel "child's toy, trinket," probably a reduplication of bel, from Latin bellus "pretty" (see bene-). Or else related to babe, baby.

noun trinket

Example sentences :

Her black eyes gleamed with triumph at the sight of the bauble.
Extract from : « City of Endless Night » by Milo Hastings

It was thus I now toyed there with my fate in my hands, as might a child have toyed with a bauble.
Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson

He let it lie on the table before him and gazed at the bauble in a strong distaste.
Extract from : « The Prisoner » by Alice Brown

So you had better produce the other bauble you stole at the same time.
Extract from : « David Elginbrod » by George MacDonald

Actually, he knew he could get an easy twenty-five balata for the bauble in Karth.
Extract from : « The Players » by Everett B. Cole

It is a bauble meant to gratify her: why make it a fetter, be it ever so light a one?
Extract from : « Molly Bawn » by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton

I keep a box in my pocket merely as a bauble—it was a present.
Extract from : « Loss and Gain » by John Henry Newman

She threw the bauble on the floor; it lay there crushed and shapeless.
Extract from : « The Doomsman » by Van Tassel Sutphen

The gilding all stripped from the bauble which till then had made her happy.
Extract from : « A Sheaf of Corn » by Mary E. Mann

But it was only a pinchbeck thing, an imitation, a bauble, an empty show.
Extract from : « Following the Equator, Complete » by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)

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