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Examples of gewgaw
gewgaw
Winners will receive a Travel section knickknack, doodad or gewgaw.
From the washingtonpost.com
In this gadget-riddled world, far be it from me to come out promoting a new must-have kitchen gewgaw.
From the theatlantic.com
Come December, Walt Disney can be relied upon to deliver a big, bright Christmasy gewgaw for the holiday trade.
From the time.com
Those employers should note that for a growing number of these workers the most appealing gewgaw of all is the freedom to work as and when they please.
From the economist.com
During his half century in television, Brinkley witnessed the transformation of the medium from an electronic gewgaw to the dominant news source.
From the usatoday.com
And what is a gewgaw?
From the guardian.co.uk
In 1998 it opened as a homage to the maestro, with every item of furniture and gewgaw placed rather obsessively as it appears in archive pictures from the Fifties to the Seventies.
From the telegraph.co.uk
At Christmas, reservations must be made weeks ahead, for gaping is even more important than dining during the weeks when every ledge, shelf and inch of ceiling is hung with some seasonal gewgaw.
From the washingtonpost.com
- Bangle: cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing
- Placeholder names are words that can refer to objects or people whose names are either temporarily forgotten, irrelevant, or unknown in the context in which it is being discussed. ...
- A showy trifle, a toy; a showy trinket, ornament or decoration. [from 15th c.]; Showy; unreal; pretentious
- (gewgawed) Covered in or decorated with gewgaws
