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‖ brimborion, -um
Also 7 breborion.
[Fr.; formerly bre-, briborion; according to Littré a perversion of breviārium ‘breviary’, whence ‘foolish charmes or superstitious prayers, vsed by old and simple women against the toothache, and any such thredbare and mustie rags of blind devotion’ (Cotgr.).]
‘A thing without value or use’ (Littré); trash, nonsense.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxi, He mumbled all his Kiriele and dunsical breborions. 1786F. Burney Diary & Lett. III. 8 Talking to your royal mistress, or handing jewels and colifichets and brimborions, baubles, knick-knacks, gewgaws. 1880Webb Goethe's Faust ii. vii. 164 As when their scruples you ovecome With all sorts of brimborium. |