每日一词tchotchke

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【每日一词】 tchotch​ke - \ ˈchäch-kə , -kē, ˈtsäts- \

n.小玩意儿,小饰品 knickknack, trinket

//Carlene's furniture was garish and awful and every shelf or corner held tchotchkes and gewgaws and other tacky trinkets.

— Ingrid Law

//… collecting every sort of art, from Old Masters to precious textiles, from rare books and manuscripts to antique tchotchkes.

— Diane Wood Middlebrook

//Still crowding his apartment and warehouses is an assemblage that includes pre-Columbian and African statuary, Charles Eames chairs, bent-wood furniture, postage stamps, patent models, busts of Roman emperors and, Wilder readily admits, tchotchkes.

— Susan Reed and Doris Bacon

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonymsbauble, bibelot, curio, curiosity, doodad, gaud, gewgaw (also geegaw), gimcrack, kickshaw, knickknack (also nicknack), novelty, ornamental, trinket

Examples

//shelves cluttered with tchotchkes from a lifetime of vacations

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