It was a glass table, with corners sharp enough to blunt a diamond, covered in every breakable variety of knickknack known to man. |
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Bauble comes from another old French word, baubel, for a child's toy, or a showy but worthless trinket or knickknack. |
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Connie runs a Third World knickknack store, but she believes herself to be an expert on the law and on real-estate statutes. |
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Behind you, in the Piazza Marina, a shambolic Sunday flea market offers every unwanted knickknack and oddment you ever yearned to throw away, plus, of course, a few priceless treasures. |
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