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Word entry · 6 letters

bauble

Best crossword clue

"Flashy trinket"

6 letters · collected on this word page

6 lettersPronunciation [ˈbɔːbəɫ]Part of speech nounSorted abbeluStarts with BEnds with E1 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing

Word origin

From Middle English bable, babel, babull, babulle, from Old French babel, baubel (“trinket, child's toy”), most likely a reduplication of bel, ultimately from Latin bellus (“pretty”).

Used in a sentence

  • […] as to the bauble on which the chief proof rests, if she had earnestly desired it, I should have willingly given it to her, so much do I esteem and value her.
  • Have none before or after him staked all their treasure of life, as a savage does his land and possessions against a draught of the fair-skins’ fire-water, or a couple of bauble eyes?
  • Many a young maid lost her baubles to my trade.

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