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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".
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 ...
Knick Knack is a 1989 American animated short film produced by Pixar that was written and directed by John Lasseter. [1] The short is about a snow globe snowman who wants to join the other travel souvenirs in a summer-themed party.
"Good Girls Don't" is a 1979 hit single written by Doug Fieger and released by the rock band The Knack, off their album Get the Knack. It was the follow-up to the group's number-one hit single, "My Sharona".
The public domain melody of the song was borrowed for "I Love You", a song used as the theme for the children's television program Barney and Friends.New lyrics were written for the melody in 1982 by Indiana homemaker Lee Bernstein for a children's book titled "Piggyback Songs" (1983), and these lyrics were adapted by the television series in the early 1990s, without knowing they had been ...
The album cover—a quaint collage of items in a knickknack shelf—was chosen over the Monkees' objections. It was the last Monkees' album to be released in separate, dedicated mono and stereo mixes. [61] During the 1986 reunion, it returned to the Billboard charts for 11 weeks. [41]
"Knock Three Times" is a popular song credited simply to "Dawn", obscuring the actual performers. The song was released as a single which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 1971 and eventually sold six million copies.