I'm going to buy you every gewgaw this side of the Mississippi.

The bubble breaks, the gewgaw ends, And in a dirty tear descends.

Beside, all reverence to the calling, I Have vowd never to marry, and you know Love may bring a Man toot at last, and therefore My fine Gewgaw do not abuse me. Sis.

Sarah Gailey made no response to this light-heartedness, and Hilda, with her hands full of vain gewgaws, tried again: "I wonder what Mrs. Granville would say if she saw me!...

finery, frippery, gewgaw, gimcrack, tinsel, spangle, clinquant^, pinchbeck, paste; excess of ornament &c (vulgarity) 851; gaud, pride.

[Excess of ornament] gaudiness, tawdriness; false ornament; finery, frippery, trickery, tinsel, gewgaw, clinquant^; baroque, rococo.

In an eddy in the seething crowd was a placid-faced Aymara, bedecked in the most tawdry manner with gewgaws from Birmingham or Manchester, sedately playing a melancholy tune on a rustic syrinx or Pan's pipe, charmingly made from little tubes of bamboo from eastern Bolivia.

The "Nightingale" has been in one of the those gewgaws, the Annuals; whether the other I sent you has, or not, penitus ignoro.

Otherwise, I should have to prattle of an infinity of mysteriesof her scarfs, feathers, laces, gloves, girdles, knots, hats, shoes, fans, and slippersof her embroideries, rings, pins, pendants, ribbons, spangles, bracelets, and chainsin fine, there would be no end to the list of gewgaws that went to make Margaret Hugonin even more adorable than Nature had fashioned her.

He kept the young Earl of Warwick, son of the Duke of Clarence, carefully indoors with massive iron gewgaws attached to his legs, thus teaching him to be backward about mingling in the false joys of society.

Over the fresh hearts and understandings of the young, notwithstanding his obscurities, his metaphysics, his contempt of gewgaws, he had established an extraordinary sway.

He is a man that ought to know something of the world, and past being duped by gewgaws and tinsel.

The other fames were very well, but they were paste to the precious stone, gewgaws to amuse simple persons.

There were no scaly fish, and it came out that the shellfish were caught by women, widows who had no men to obey or please, who had children, or who wanted francs to buy gewgaws or tobacco; and a few unsocial men fishers who did not abide by the common interests of their group.

In fact, we suspect that the reason why English "flunkeys" hate American "flunkeyism," with its laced coachmen, etc., is because mere money, by aping the insignia of rank, its gewgaws and trumpery, shows too plainly how much of the rank itself depends upon the fabrics and demonstrations through which it sets itself forth.

The other sides were taken up by the fabric and gewgaw venders, while in the centre stood the platforms from which the auctioneers offered treasures from the Occident.

As to their walks in life: among them were clerks and guards from the bank, members of the native constabulary, Indian fakirs and showmen, and venders of foreign gewgaws.

In get, give, gewgaw, finger, and a few other words.

The booksellers at that time of day had not discovered so much of the weakness of their gentle readers as they have done since, nor so plainly discovered that fools, like children, are to be drawn in by gewgaws.

This gewgaw scene hath fewer charms for her Than for the crone, that numbering sixty winters, Pronounceth it all folly.

Dropping to trifles they mentioned a knife, a rather glittering gewgaw, which, as evidence, ought "Oh, that one!" said Hilary.

he asked, as soon as he had it in hand"you used no constraint or force, I hope?" "Nay, sir," said the man, "for my wife being dead and my daughter marriageable, she keeps house for me; and having a sweetheart betrothed a year ago she hath been laying aside plenishing gear and women's dainty gewgaws.

She has a little money, And she flings it everywhere; 'T is a gewgaw on her bosom, 'T is a tinsel in her hair.

"And you are dazzled with all these gewgaws of Court life, no doubt?" "I shall not be much in the way of gewgaws just yet," said Anne drily.

"And you are dazzled with all these gewgaws of Court life, no doubt?" "I shall not be much in the way of gewgaws just yet," said Anne drily.