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Definition of Bauble
1. Noun. A mock scepter carried by a court jester.
2. Noun. Cheap showy jewelry or ornament on clothing.
Generic synonyms: Adornment
Group relationships: Trinketry
Derivative terms: Gaudy
Definition of Bauble
1. n. A trifling piece of finery; a gewgaw; that which is gay and showy without real value; a cheap, showy plaything.
Definition of Bauble
1. Noun. A cheap showy ornament piece of jewellery; a gewgaw. ¹
2. Noun. A club or sceptre carried by a jester. ¹
3. Noun. A small shiny spherical decoration, commonly put on Christmas trees. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bauble
1. a cheap trinket [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bauble
Literary usage of Bauble
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"THE bauble USED BY FOOLS WAS A PHALLUS. " It escaped the recondite Mr. Douce, in
his elegant Illustrations of Fools and Clowns, ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"On the book of knowledge is perched the dove, emblematic of purity, while the
olive branch at the left of the book and the palm under the Fool's bauble give ..."
3. Memorials of Dixie-land: Orations, Essays, Sketches, and Poems on Topics by Lucian Lamar Knight (1919)
"The simple figures alone constitute an eloquent commentary upon the emptiness of
the bauble which men call Fame. Few, indeed, were the nights in the gay ..."
4. A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents by Charles Richard Weld (1848)
"Described—Curious popular belief of its being the celebrated " bauble"—Account
of the bauble-Mace—Letter from Mr. ..."
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