BRIC-A BRAC
\bɹˈɪkɐ bɹˈak], \bɹˈɪkɐ bɹˈak], \b_ɹ_ˈɪ_k_ɐ b_ɹ_ˈa_k]\
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Rare or antique articles, as plate or china; knickknacks; ornaments which are pretty or odd; articles with no real value; sometimes used contemptuously.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A collection of objects having a certain interest or value from their rarity, antiquity, or the like, as old furniture, plate, china, curiosities; articles of vertu. "Two things only jarred on his eye in his hurried glance round the room, there was too much bric-a-brac; and too many flowers."-H. Kingsley.
By Daniel Lyons
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