as in ornamental
a small object displayed for its attractiveness or interest
shelves cluttered with tchotchkes from a lifetime of vacations
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Recent Examples of tchotchke
The restaurant includes a replica of her television, and tchotchkes throughout the space.
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Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
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Conceal the clutter
Your brain is less likely to settle down if your nightstand is overflowing with tchotchkes, books, and empty water glasses.
—Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
In his free time, Tom enjoyed golf, cars, cocktails, puzzles, parties, and collecting hilarious tchotchkes.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Your brain is less likely to settle down if your nightstand is overflowing with tchotchkes, books, and empty water glasses.
—Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
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Cynthia J Drake, Southern Living, 30 Mar. 2025
Jo Malone London Lavender & Moonflower Pillow Mist $52
Bloomingdale's
Room & Linen Aromatherapy Duo
$28
Koala Eco
Conceal the clutter
Your brain is less likely to settle down if your nightstand is overflowing with tchotchkes, books, and empty water glasses.
—Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
In his free time, Tom enjoyed golf, cars, cocktails, puzzles, parties, and collecting hilarious tchotchkes.
—Contributed Content, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
Your brain is less likely to settle down if your nightstand is overflowing with tchotchkes, books, and empty water glasses.
—Miranda Silva, Architectural Digest, 17 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for tchotchke
Noun
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Many deciduous ornamentals including redbuds, forsythia, crabapples, fruit trees, quince azaleas and many others were not adversely affected by last summer’s drought and the cold, windy winter and frozen soils that followed.—
Pamm Cooper,
Hartford Courant,
10 May 2025
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Companion plants for ornamentals such as hydrangeas are selected for aesthetic purposes.—
Kim Toscano,
Southern Living,
5 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Listen to this article 2 min A New York Yankees fan had the opportunity to go home with an awesome souvenir, but the goodness of his heart got to him.—
Ryan Morik,
FOXNews.com,
7 May 2025
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Tickets were priced at $45 per person and included a business passport checklist, goodie bags, souvenirs and entry into a raffle.—
Kaitlin Mikrut,
Chicago Tribune,
6 May 2025
Noun
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Don’t fill your space with knickknacks from a one-stop shopping spree.—
Sophie Flaxman,
Better Homes & Gardens,
9 May 2025
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It’s filled with racks of clothes, art and dinosaur knickknacks.—
Lia Picard,
New York Times,
3 May 2025
Noun
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The hand ornament represents the friendship between women, a spokesperson for Hu told me.—
Anthony DeMarco,
Forbes.com,
13 May 2025
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First appearing on the marble above the fireplace, the ornaments are now also on the Oval Office walls.—
Jesus Mesa,
MSNBC Newsweek,
7 May 2025
Noun
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Words that foiled spellers included chrysal, athanor, cloxacillin, heliconius, torticollis, platylepadid and gewgaw, and at one point judges had to review a video replay to determine whether a speller said the letter I or Y.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
9 July 2021
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And how nice to see Cynthia Erivo — to really see the woman and not have her overwhelmed by an elaborate mishmash of ruffles and gewgaws.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
6 Jan. 2020
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“Tchotchke.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tchotchke. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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