trinketry
(ˈtrɪŋkɪtrɪ)
[f. trinket n.1 + -ry, after jewelry.]
Trinkets collectively; articles of personal decoration or of ornament viewed as trinkets or toys. Also fig.
| 1810 Southey Kehama xiii. xiii, Ear-drop, nor chain, nor arm, nor ankle-ring, Nor trinketry on front, or neck, or breast. 1839–40 W. Irving Wolfert's R. (1855) 205 In those days there were no country stores in those parts, with their artificial finery and trinketry. 1892 Critic 23 Jan. 47/2 Plain, entirely accurate, not unmusical prose, unencumbered with the trickery and trinketry required by verse. 1911 F. N. Streatfeild Remin. xiii. 147 A General, with much trinketry on his manly bosom. |