knick-knackery

For the shoppers, there's the inevitable trip to Hannsi, the giant Venezuelan folk-art emporium of all things knick-knackery.

Love In The Time Of Counterrevolution 2007

Inside, she found the kind of office that was not so much decorated as accumulated: the hundreds of books, most of which Were leather editions stuffed with handwritten notes on yellowing paper, which sat stacked four-deep on institutional-design metal shelves, had to compete against a lifetime's sediment of beloved knick-knackery for every inch of shelf space.

The Sinister Six Combo Castro, Adam Troy 2001

On it the concierge was hoisting trunks, and into it was being heaped a promiscuous variety of knick-knackery and wearing apparel.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. Various

Here at our establishment, though, we do have a great big uproarious gang of servants, and knick-knackery and jewellery and clothes and silver plate lying about. ibi si perierit quippiam -- quod te scio facile abstinere posse, si nihil obviam est -- dicant: coqui abstulerunt, comprehendite, vincite, verberate, in puteum condite. horum tibi istic nihil eveniet: quippe qui ubi quid subripias nihil est. sequere hac me.

Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

I rather fancy not -- they tell me he's as savage as an Arab about knick-knackery nowadays.

The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet James Fenimore Cooper 1820

(population: a few hundred frozen Germans, and us) we are, therefore, sitting in a one-roomed pub, advertised by a gigantic wooden herring outside, and crammed inside with Dutch and German and English nautical knick-knackery.

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