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noun

Bauble n.

A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything. "The ineffective bauble of an Indian pagod."

The fool's club. (Obs.) "A fool's bauble was a short stick with a head ornamented with an ass's ears fantastically carved upon it."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Bauble" Quotes from Famous Books

... Locksley," said the Sheriff, scarce looking at him, "here is my golden arrow which I have offered as reward to the best bowman in this Fair. You have been accorded the prize; and I do yield it to you with sincere pleasure. Take the bauble now from our daughter's hand, and use the ...

— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick

... perched hard by the eagle's crag, Loud cawed his fellows from afar to feast. Ill-omened bird—his carrion-cries were vain! Again our veteran eagles plumed their wings, And forth he fled from Montezuma's shores— A dastard flight—betraying unto death Him whom he dazzled with a bauble crown. Just retribution followed swift and sure— Germania's eagles plucked him at Sedan. A gloomy month wore off, and then the news That Lee, emboldened by his late success, Had poured his legions upon Northern ...

— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon

... my dear madam, I know quite well that you care for no such bauble as a coronet, except in so far as it may confer honour upon those most dear to you—excellent wife and noble mother as you are. Heigho! what a happy ...

— The Bedford-Row Conspiracy • William Makepeace Thackeray

... impressions were all important. Every shopkeeper realises as much, which is the reason why he labels his goods just a farthing beneath the ultimate shilling. The feminine conscience might possibly shy at paying a whole three shillings for a bauble which could be done without, but, let the eye catch sight of an impressive Two, and the small eleven three-farthings ...

— The Love Affairs of Pixie • Mrs George de Horne Vaizey

... to the part. Next to him came a character of no little importance, and upon whom much of the mirth of the pageant depended, and this devolved upon the village cobbler, Jack Roby, a dapper little fellow, who fitted the part of the Fool to a nicety. With bauble in hand, and blue coxcomb hood adorned with long white asses' ears on head, with jerkin of green, striped with yellow; hose of different colours, the left leg being yellow, with a red pantoufle, and the right blue, terminated ...

— The Lancashire Witches - A Romance of Pendle Forest • William Harrison Ainsworth

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