knick-knack

Tarkoititko: knock-out

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englanti A small ornament of minor value.
1720, (w), (w), London: J. Brotherton et al., p. 89,https://archive.org/details/lifeadventurespy00defo
Our cutler Cutler, who had now a great Stock of things of his Handy-work, gave them some little Knick Knacks, as Plates of Silver and of Iron, cut Diamond Fashion, and cut into Hearts and into Rings, and they were mightily pleased.
1844, (w), (w), London: Chapman & Hall, Chapter 9, p. 110,https://archive.org/details/adventuresoflife00dickrich
But there was no hitch in the conversation, nevertheless; for one gentleman, who travelled in the perfumery line, exhibited an interesting nick-nack, in the way of a remarkable cake of shaving soap, which he had lately met with in Germany (..)
1881, (w), (w), London: Macmillan, Volume 2, Chapter 17, pp. 198-199,https://archive.org/details/portraitalady01jamegoog
The room was small, and densely filled with furniture; it gave an impression of faded silk and little statuettes which might totter if one moved. Rosier got up and wandered about with his careful tread, bending over the tables charged with knick-knacks and the cushions embossed with princely arms.
1929, (w), “The Aim of Art” in It Needs to Be Said,http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks08/0800451.txt
Is art anything that we have reason to value? Or is it a mere adornment of life which we can do without—a mere knick-knack for Dame Civilization to hang about her wrinkled neck in order to dazzle her neighbours?

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