Definition of Trinketries

1. Noun. (plural of trinketry) ¹

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Definition of Trinketries

1. trinketry [n] - See also: trinketry

Lexicographical Neighbors of Trinketries

trinitrophenyl-polylysine-horseradish peroxidase
trinitroresorcinol
trinitrosyl
trinitrotoluene
trinitrotoluenes
trinitrotoluol
trinity
triniunity
trink
trinket
trinketed
trinketer
trinketers
trinketing
trinketlike
trinketries (current term)
trinketry
trinkets
trinkety
trinkle
trinkly
trinks
trinkum
trinkums
trinoctial
trinocular
trinodal
trinomen
trinomial
trinomials

Literary usage of Trinketries

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"... sentimental expression, morbidness, elegant sensuality ; it even takes pleasure sometimes in pictorial niceties and trinketries, entirely outside its ..."

2. Aesthetics; Or, The Science of Beauty by John Bascom (1867)
"... where to begin or where to end, it becomes obtrusive, changeable and detached, and art passes into stage effect, — a fanciful shifting of trinketries. ..."

3. The Law of Likeness by D. Bates (1903)
"... and to substitute for its living principle, inanimate and unserviceable trinketries ? Or the way of the world, which the Churches condone and sustain ? ..."

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