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单词 bauble
释义 bau·ble
\ˈbȯbəl, ˈbäb-\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English babel, from Middle French babel, baubel
1. : something that is bright, showy, sometimes expensive, and usually of little use : trinket, gewgaw, plaything
 < he affixed the bauble, with a kiss, upon her middle finger — Elinor Wylie >
2. : a fool's scepter
 < the licensed jester … brandished his bauble — Sir Walter Scott >
3. : a child's toy
 < a child asleep with a bauble — R.P.Warren >
4.
 a. : something that is considered childish, foolish, or worthless : trifle
  < the Right Honorable before my name is a bauble — T.B.Macaulay >
 b. obsolete : a childish, foolish, or worthless person
  < thither comes the bauble and falls me thus about my neck — Shakespeare >
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