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About two-thirds of the masters have lost their heads, and are trying to produce a gimcrack copy of Eton.
THE LONGEST JOURNEYE. M. FORSTERWhen gazing at it one gazed at the ruin, not of a cottage or of a gimcrack villa, but at the ruins of a palace.
DECEMBER LOVEROBERT HICHENSI was never one to jump to gimcrack conclusions, and I said as much with perhaps more candour than the occasion required.
WITCHING HILLE. W. HORNUNGDominating the town is the two-or three-story “Queen Hotel,” the last word in flamboyant, gimcrack hideousness.
WILDERNESS, A JOURNAL OF QUIET ADVENTURE IN ALASKAROCKWELL KENTThere were many flowers in the room—some in Cloisonne vases, others in gimcrack vessels such as are bought at country fairs.
SIMON THE JESTERWILLIAM J. LOCKESome gimcrack belonging to the ship's ornamentation had been freshly gilded and left to dry, protected by an old sail-cloth.
THE STOLEN SINGERMARTHA IDELL FLETCHER BELLINGERNow perhaps three yards separated us, she standing in the rain, I with her gimcrack of an umbrella.
THE DEBIT ACCOUNTOLIVER ONIONSHere, for example, is one-hundred-to-eight offered against Pincushion for the Gimcrack Stakes.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOL. 159, JULY 7TH, 1920VARIOUSThey returned at length to their little gimcrack bungalow—the Match-box, as Puck called it—on foot under a blaze of stars.
THE SAFETY CURTAIN, AND OTHER STORIESETHEL M. DELLTh' old squire looked up at this, and peered in his way at the screen, and said, 'One pound thirteen for a gimcrack like that!
ADAM BEDEGEORGE ELIOTWORDS RELATED TO GIMCRACK
- accoutrement
- appliance
- black box
- contraption
- device
- dingbat
- doodad
- doohickey
- furnishings
- gaff
- gear
- gimcrack
- gimmick
- gizmo
- grabber
- idiot box
- implement
- jigger
- job
- machine
- machinery
- means
- mechanism
- outfit
- paraphernalia
- provisions
- setup
- stuff
- supplies
- tackle
- thingamajig
- tools
- utensils
- whatchamacallit
- whatsis
- whosis
- widget
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