plural tchotchkes
: knickknack, trinket
Carlene's furniture was garish and awful and every shelf or corner held tchotchkes and gewgaws and other tacky trinkets.—Ingrid Law
… collecting every sort of art, from Old Masters to precious textiles, from rare books and manuscripts to antique tchotchkes.—Diane Wood Middlebrook
Still crowding his apartment and warehouses is an assemblage that includes pre-Columbian and African statuary, Charles Eames chairs, bent-wood furniture, postage stamps, patent models, busts of Roman emperors and, Wilder readily admits, tchotchkes.—Susan Reed and Doris Bacon
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