Bauble
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A bauble may be:
- A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
- A club or sceptre carried by a jester.
- A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
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See also
- Memorabilia
- Christmas ornament - British English
- trinket
- knickknack or Bric-à-brac
- frippery
- gewgaw
- tchotchke
- small jewelry
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Etymology
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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