Meaning of Bauble | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A cheap showy ornament or piece of jewellery; a gewgaw.
2. Anything trivial and worthless.
   broadly, figuratively
3. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees.
4. A club or sceptre carried by a jester.

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Examples

“[…] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.”

“Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?”

“Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.”

“His hind quarters were likewise short, and not racinglike, and taken as a specimen of the horse, he was a mere bauble when looked at by the side of an English race-horse, much less a hunter.”

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