Meaning of trinketize | Babel Free

Definitions

To reduce to trinkets; to make tawdry and materialistic.

transitive

Examples

“Likewise, mass production of local arts and crafts to produce volumes of souvenirs for tourists can trinketize indigenous craftsmanship.”

“One of these is the all-out effort to commodify and market that threatens to trinketize and trivialize the World War II experience.”

“For the tourist, Indianness is trinketized as turquoise jewelry or prayer circles strung with feathers and shells, suggesting something earthy, exotic, mysterious[…]”

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