bric-a-brac
noun
plural bric-a-brac
1
: a miscellaneous collection of small articles commonly of ornamental or sentimental value : curios
2
: something suggesting bric-a-brac especially in extraneous decorative quality
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Chipotle arrived like a lightning bolt in 1993, bringing its approximation of Mexican food and an industrial, minimalist aesthetic to a fast-food scene cluttered with bric-a-brac and cartoony maximalism.
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2026
Jungle Bird sports a beach club motif with a thatched roof palapa over the bar and cozy nooks adorned with grasscloth walls and tropical bric-a-brac.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Through the exhibit, the building is allowed to show its skin: Walls are plastered but unpainted, and the basement is stuffed with bric-a-brac accumulated during its long, colorful history.
—Will Fenstermaker, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Among the bric-a-brac was a large collection of hats—baseball caps, wide-brimmed straw hats, an Indigenous headdress with green and red parrot feathers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
The 17-minute short is also animation art of the highest order, seen in the extraordinary bric-a-brac detail of a pawnshop, lending it an immersive authenticity.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
Cracker Barrel’s decor harkens back to a time of family restaurants with bric-a-brac covering the walls.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Uncle Herschel is back, but his bric-a-brac may stay in the landfill.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
The cluttered bric-a-brac shop provides artifacts for the conceptual vignettes displayed in the nearby Museum of Innocence, based on the namesake novel by Nobel Prize–winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk (who also happened to live in the house before it was converted into a museum).
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
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Adriane Quinlan, Curbed, 12 Feb. 2026
Jungle Bird sports a beach club motif with a thatched roof palapa over the bar and cozy nooks adorned with grasscloth walls and tropical bric-a-brac.
—Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 6 Feb. 2026
Through the exhibit, the building is allowed to show its skin: Walls are plastered but unpainted, and the basement is stuffed with bric-a-brac accumulated during its long, colorful history.
—Will Fenstermaker, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
Among the bric-a-brac was a large collection of hats—baseball caps, wide-brimmed straw hats, an Indigenous headdress with green and red parrot feathers.
—Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 15 Jan. 2026
The 17-minute short is also animation art of the highest order, seen in the extraordinary bric-a-brac detail of a pawnshop, lending it an immersive authenticity.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 6 Jan. 2026
Cracker Barrel’s decor harkens back to a time of family restaurants with bric-a-brac covering the walls.
—Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN Money, 13 Sep. 2025
Uncle Herschel is back, but his bric-a-brac may stay in the landfill.
—Bethy Squires, Vulture, 26 Aug. 2025
The cluttered bric-a-brac shop provides artifacts for the conceptual vignettes displayed in the nearby Museum of Innocence, based on the namesake novel by Nobel Prize–winning Turkish author Orhan Pamuk (who also happened to live in the house before it was converted into a museum).
—Ashlea Halpern, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Dec. 2018
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