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bijou
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synonyms: bijoutry, daedal, filigree ???
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Definition:A trinket; a jewel; -- a word applied to anything small and of elegant workmanship.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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Richard: I feel boxed in! This place is too small!
Hyacinth: Richard, I would ask you to please remember that our apartment in this grade II listed mansion is not small, it's old-world-bijou.
BBC. Keeping Up Appearances: Please Mind Your Head (1993)
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“I’ve such an idea for a cotillion! Un bijou!”
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Her expenditure guaranteed by the firm of Scrope, Ashby and Pemberton, she had bought several dresses, several hats, an expensive car and some nice bits of bijouterie in Bond Street.
P. G. Wodehouse. The Girl in Blue, pp.98-9 (1971)
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if I might judge from a saucepan on the hob, and a brazen bijou over the fireplace designed for the suspension of a roasting-jack.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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“this tray contains a very recherchy lot — a collection of trifles for the drawing-room table — and trifles make the sum OF human things — nothing more important than trifles —( yes, Mr. Ladislaw, yes, by-and-by)— but pass the tray round, Joseph — these bijoux must be examined, ladies.
George Eliot. Middlemarch
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