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Depending on the context, the term has a connotation of worthlessness or disposability as well as tackiness. [7] [8]A common confusion is between the terms tchotchke and tsatske or rather tsatskele, with the diminutive ending -le.
Bric-à-brac for sale at a street market in Cambridge. Bric-à-brac (French: [bʁi.ka.bʁak]) or bric-a-brac (from French), first used in the Victorian era, around 1840, refers to lesser objets d'art forming collections of curios. The French phrase dates from the 16th century meaning "at random, any old way".
Utility ware, flower pots, garden ware & art ware [22] Pond Farm Pottery: Guerneville: 1953–1980: Art pottery: Ransgil Glass Co. Oakland: 1940s-50s: Gold-encrusted china and glassware: Red Doat: Berkeley: 1930s: Figurines [11] Redlands Pottery: Redlands: 1902–1909: Art ware [10] Richenda Stevick: Redwood City, then Berkeley: 1930s ...
The preparation varies by locality and nation. Bartlett quotes Trumbull as saying: "I have smoked half a dozen varieties of kinnikinnick in the North-west — all genuine; and have scraped and prepared the red willow-bark, which is not much worse than Suffield oak-leaf."
Knick Knack is an English equivalent of the French bric-à-brac or "gnic-gnac", an expression ascribed to Napoleon. Knick Knack, Knickknack or Nick Nack may also refer to: Knick Knack, an animated Pixar short film; This Old Man, a nursery rhyme that repeats the line "Knickknack Paddywhack" in each verse
A rose dipped in 24-karat gold. Gold-dipped roses, or gold-trimmed roses, are real roses that are cut and preserved in a protective shell of gold to make them last a long time. [1] These roses are often given as gifts on special occasions like Mother's Day, Valentine's Day, wedding anniversaries, birthdays, and other celebrations and events ...
Knickerbockers have been popular in other sporting endeavors, particularly golf, rock climbing, cross-country skiing, fencing and bicycling. In cycling, they were standard attire for nearly 100 years, with the majority of archival photos of cyclists in the era before World War I showing men wearing knickerbockers tucked into long socks.
Eschscholzia californica, the California poppy, golden poppy, California sunlight or cup of gold, is a species of flowering plant in the family Papaveraceae, native to the United States and Mexico. It is cultivated as an ornamental plant flowering in summer (spring in southern Australia), with showy flowers in brilliant shades of red, orange ...