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gimcracky, a.|ˈdʒɪmkrækɪ|
[f. gimcrack n. + -y3.]
Of the nature of a gimcrack.
1820C. Edwards in Blackw. Mag. (1824) XVI. 661/1 How the gardens of the Thuilleries were commended to me!—with their..parterres..gaudy white statues, and water in basins thirty feet superficial—All so fine prepense, and formal, and well swept and cleaned, and gimcracky. 1860All Year Round No. 74. 571 This cheap looking-glass, a foolish gimcracky sort of article. 1892M. North Recoll. Happy Life I. 312 A little house full of curiosities, quite under the shade of the Temple Garden, and close to its pretty lake with its gimcracky balustrade. |