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- noun Plural form of
trinket .
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Examples
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Do you think Obama will be able to buy off the UK judges with a DVD box set and a few trinkets from the White House giftshop?
The Volokh Conspiracy » No Habeas Jurisdiction Over Bagram Air Force Base 2010
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Reviewers and satirical writers came to gaze upon their works with the same impassivity, borrowing the very same set of trinkets from the display cabinet as the imitative practitioners of the Gothic.
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It suggests that other areas of literature have also been infected by the Gothic's celebration of the ornamental, its use of certain attractive toys, its uncritical selection of trinkets from the Gothic display cabinet.
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Suddenly, she spots a trio of looters taking some trinkets from a pawn shop and leaps to stop them.
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The film also shows watches, rings and dog tags of dead U.S. soldiers, piled up like trinkets from a cheap carnival.
Walker, Orien J. Jr. 1990
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Artisans, where two or three soldiers were modelling and chiselling all kinds of trinkets from the aluminum of enemy shells.
Fighting France 1915
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Brief, she resembleth thee in all her attributes, and on her fingers are seal rings like thy seal rings and her trinkets are as thy trinkets.
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Tell him the trinkets are his own, and to his own use let him apply them.
Anne of Geierstein 2008
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The Captain told his wife of the circumstance, and she laughingly remarked that it was a custom among the Indians to name trinkets and presents after the persons who had given them.
Young Lion of the Woods A Story of Early Colonial Days Thomas Barlow Smith
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She wears more "jewelry," as certain young ladies call their trinkets, than I care to see on a person in her position.
Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works Oliver Wendell Holmes 1851
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