trinketnoun詞源 1/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  A small, showy ornament, especially a piece of jewellery.

  • That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
  • [H]e's an old man, / A good old man, they ſay too: I dare ſvveare / Full many a yeare ago, he left theſe gambols: / Here, take your trinkets.
• 2

  A thing of little practical and/or monetary value; a toy, a trifle.

  • It’s only a little trinket, but it reminds her of him.
  • There is no art about the Eiffel Tower. In no way can it be said to have contributed to the real beauty of the Exhibition. Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the Exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the Tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower.
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  obsoleteA small item of food; a small dainty.

  • [L]et Tim send the ale and the sack, and the nipperkin of double-distilled, with a bit of diet-loaf, or some such trinket, and score it to the new comer.
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  obsoleteA small item forming part of a set of equipment; an accessory, an accoutrement.

  • Good huſbandes that laye, to ſaue all thing vpright: / for Tumbrels and cartes, haue a ſhed redy dight. / A ſtore houſe for trinkets, kept cloſe as a iayle: / that nothing be wanting, the worthe of a nayle.
  • [T]he poorer ſort of common ſouldiers haue euery man his leather bag or ſachell well ſowen together, wherin he packs vp all his trinkets, and ſtrongly truſſing it vp hangs it at his horſes tayle, and ſo paſſeth ouer, in manner aforeſaid.
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  derogatoryobsoletelifestylereligionAn item used in a religious rite (also, a religious rite, belief, etc.) regarded as superfluous or trivial.

  • [T]he ſame teachers with Chriſts doctrine mingled Jewiſhnes and ſuperſticious Philoſophie, obſeruing and keping certain poyntes of the lawe, ſuperſticiously alſo honouring the Sunne, the Moone, and ſtarres, with ſuch other trinkettes of this world, hearing the Coloſſiãs [Colossians] in hand that thei were alſo bound to do the ſame.
  • The Duke of Somerſet vvas religious himſelf, a lover of all ſuch as vvere ſo, and a great Promoter of Reformation. Valiant, fortunate, vvitneſſe his victory in Muſleborrough field, vvhen the Scots filled many carts vvith emptineſſe, and loaded them vvith vvhat vvas lighter than vanity it ſelf, Popiſh Images, and other Trinkets, vvherein they placed the confidence of their Conqueſt.

trinketverb詞源 1/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  rareOften followed by out: to adorn (someone or something) with trinkets (noun etymology 1, noun sense 1).

  • Oh! those were good Dame Nature’s times! / How memories sweet o’er-swarm us, / Ere wasp-like forms were girt around / With ‘bustles’ so enormous; / When modest arms were never bared / And trinketed for show, / Nor ever left their hiding-place, / Save to be hid in dough!
  • The Girls for sale are apparelled in a sumptuous manner, bathed, perfumed, and trinketed out for their [rich persons'] Private View; and their Captors seek to render 'em docile by giving 'em plenty of Sweetmeats. As if the intolerable pangs of Slavery were to be allayed by Lollipops!

trinketnoun詞源 2/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  A narrow or small watercourse.

  • It must have been about the same moment that a smack drew through the fine mist in the Firth [of Forth], and, sailing up the trinket, landed Provost Trail on the east pier-head.

trinketnoun詞源 3/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  obsoletedialectalA small vessel for drinking from; a cup, a mug, a porringer.

  • Mrs. Bargrave asked her, vvhether ſhe vvould not drink ſome Tea. Says Mrs. Veal, I do not care if I do: But I'le VVarrant this Mad Fellovv (meaning Mrs. Bargraves Husband,) has broke all your Trinckets.

trinketnoun詞源 4/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  obsoletenauticaltransportA small sail, specifically, a three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.

  • [H]ee ſet up the trinkets or ſmall ſailes, meaning to make vvay into the deepe, commanding them that follovved ſtill, to make head, and direct their provvs againſt the right vving neere the land.
  • And the farther we went, the more the winds increaſed, ſo that they put vs to great diſtreſſe, ſayling alwayes with the ſheates of maineſaile and trinket warily in our hands, and with great diligence we looſed the ties of all the ſailes, to ſaue them the better, that the wind might not charge them too vehemently.

trinketverb詞源 5/ˈtɹɪŋkɪt/

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  obsoleteTo act in a secret, and often dishonest, way; to have secret, and often dishonest, dealings; to intrigue, to scheme.

  • And if any one aſkes me, hovv? and if I be of their Cabinet Council? I ſhall onely ſmile, perceiving they doe not knovv me. I am far from that, or having ever to doe vvith Kings or States in that kind, or pragmatically trinketing vvith State affaires, it being a Rule vvhich I live by, never to aſke great men mercy.
  • [T]he Pharisees were men of business, and that in a very eminent manner, as appears by their behaviour both in the court of Queen [Salome] Alexandra, and afterwards in the court of Herod [the Great]; where by their tricks and trinketing between party and party, and their intriguing it with courtiers and court-ladies, they had upon the matter set the whole court together by the ears; […]