bric-a-brac
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Among the bric-a-brac are a hosiery stock card, old negatives and a birthday letter.
From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 16, 2025
Another expedition involved visiting a “car boot sale,” a flea market particular to the U.K. in which ordinary folk park their cars in a field and sell bric-a-brac from the trunk.
From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022
A woman who found two portraits by a 20th Century British artist on a church bric-a-brac stall has described it as her "Fiona Bruce" moment.
From BBC • Aug. 5, 2022
Photos of prominent Black Bermudians, newspaper clippings, period clothing, depictions of life for enslaved people and period bric-a-brac crowd the museum walls, tables and display cases.
From Washington Post • Apr. 29, 2022
In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house.
From "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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