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ˈbrɪk əˌbrækbric-a-brac
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Princeton's WordNet
bric-a-brac, knickknack, nicknack, knickknackery, whatnotnoun
miscellaneous curios
Wiktionary
bric-a-bracnoun
Small ornaments and other miscellaneous items of little value.
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Bric-a-Brac
Bric-a-Brac is a British children's television series devised by Michael Cole and Nick Wilson, and starring well known children's television presenter Brian Cant. It was produced by the BBC and originally ran from 1 October until 5 November 1980, with another series from 18 August to 29 September 1982. It was repeated frequently until 1989.The programme was set in a fictitious junk shop, with its shopkeeper played by Cant, who would deliver a monologue to camera. Each episode centred on a particular letter of the alphabet, with different items beginning with that letter found and discussed by the shopkeeper. Cant's script made heavy use of alliteration, and made use of tongue-twisters. At the end of each episode, he would wind up and set off a traditional clockwork toy, upon which the camera would focus whilst the credits rolled.
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bric-a-brac
Bric-a-brac is a term used to refer to small, decorative, and often collectible items that are either ornamental or of varied interest but relatively low value. These can be found in homes as decorations or sold at yard sales, second-hand stores, and auctions. The term also extends to miscellaneous items and curios.
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Bric-à-brac
Bric-à-brac or Bric-a-brac, first used in the Victorian era, refers to lesser objets d'art forming collections of curios, such as elaborately decorated teacups and small vases, compositions of feathers or wax flowers under glass domes, decorated eggshells, porcelain figurines, painted miniatures or photographs in stand-up frames, and so on. In middle-class homes bric-à-brac was used as ornament on mantelpieces, cluttered tables, and shelves, or was displayed in curio cabinets: sometimes these cabinets have glass doors to display the items within while protecting them from dust. "Bric-à-brac" nowadays refers to a selection of items of modest value, often sold in street markets. Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman, Jr., in The Decoration of Houses, distinguished three gradations of quality in such "household ornaments": bric-à-brac, bibelots and objets d'art.
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Bric-à-brac
brik′a-brak, n. old curiosities, or other articles of value. [Acc. to Littré, formed after the phrase de bric et de broc, 'by hook and by crook.']
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of bric-a-brac in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of bric-a-brac in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
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