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60 lines
3.4 KiB
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{
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"tchotchke":{
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"type":[
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"noun"
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],
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"definitions":{
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": knickknack , trinket":[
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"Carlene's furniture was garish and awful and every shelf or corner held tchotchkes and gewgaws and other tacky trinkets.",
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"\u2014 Ingrid Law",
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"\u2026 collecting every sort of art, from Old Masters to precious textiles, from rare books and manuscripts to antique tchotchkes .",
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"\u2014 Diane Wood Middlebrook",
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"Still crowding his apartment and warehouses is an assemblage that includes pre-Columbian and African statuary, Charles Eames chairs, bent-wood furniture, postage stamps, patent models, busts of Roman emperors and, Wilder readily admits, tchotchkes .",
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"\u2014 Susan Reed and Doris Bacon"
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]
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},
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"pronounciation":[
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"\u02c8ts\u00e4ts-",
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"-k\u0113",
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"\u02c8ch\u00e4ch-k\u0259"
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],
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"synonyms":[
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"bauble",
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"bibelot",
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"curio",
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"curiosity",
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"doodad",
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"gaud",
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"gewgaw",
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"geegaw",
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"gimcrack",
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"kickshaw",
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"knickknack",
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"nicknack",
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"novelty",
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"ornamental",
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"trinket"
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],
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"antonyms":[],
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"synonym_discussion":"",
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"examples":[
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"a bedroom with polka-dot curtains, flowery wallpaper, and shelves cluttered with tchotchkes from a lifetime of vacations",
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"Recent Examples on the Web",
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"Which is a shame because aside from being a tchotchke -hoarder, my mom also loves to bake, and any great baker needs a set of high-quality, actually functional measuring spoons. \u2014 Bon App\u00e9tit , 22 Apr. 2022",
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"Amazon is still not great at physical stores: Amazon will close more than 50 of its retail shops, including its bookstores and tchotchke outposts called Amazon 4-Star. \u2014 New York Times , 3 Mar. 2022",
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"Every stick of furniture, piece of art, light fixture and side table tchotchke is included. \u2014 Howard Walker, Robb Report , 16 Nov. 2021",
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"Using my iPhone to control my Roku has been a pleasure, and my little ergonomically slippery external remote control now sits comfortably on my coffee table, a tchotchke next to my Scrabble-tile coasters and my roommate\u2019s potted succulent. \u2014 Joe Reid, Vulture , 19 Aug. 2021",
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"Decades of high school lit seminars, let alone the gradual opening of the playgoing class\u2019s eyes to the world\u2019s inequities and terrors, have transformed it from an enigmatic museum piece into an existential tchotchke . \u2014 New York Times , 7 May 2021",
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"Which is a shame because aside from being a tchotchke -hoarder, my mom also loves to bake, and any great baker needs a set of functional measuring spoons. \u2014 Mackenzie Chung Fegan, Bon App\u00e9tit , 3 May 2021",
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"For the Confederate Battle Flag \u2014 a symbol of Southern sedition in the Civil War, and an emblem of bondage \u2014 its second act as gift-shop tchotchke represents willful ignorance at best. \u2014 BostonGlobe.com , 21 Apr. 2021",
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"The clay figures started making their way back to Salem in the early 18th century, packed in duffle bags by merchant seaman who bought them in Indian markets as tourist tchotchke . \u2014 Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com , 14 Jan. 2021"
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],
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"history_and_etymology":{
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"Yiddish tshatshke trinket, from obsolete Polish czaczko":""
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},
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"first_known_use":{
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"1971, in the meaning defined above":""
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},
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"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063046"
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}
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} |