Trinket vs Haberdashed - What's the difference?
trinket | haberdashed |
A small showy ornament or piece of jewelry
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.
(nautical) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard.
* Hakluyt
(obsolete) A knife; a cutting tool.
Decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.
* 1981 , Vicki Goldberg, Photography in print: writings from 1816 to the present (page 135)
* {{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 20, author=Paul Devlin, title=Black Star, work=New York Times
, passage=Toward the end of the masterly “Negro With a Hat” (as the Napoleonically haberdashed Garvey was derided by W. E. B. Du Bois), Garvey is quoted as having said: “We were the first Fascists. }}
As a noun trinket
is a small showy ornament or piece of jewelry.As a verb trinket
is to give trinkets; to court favour.As an adjective haberdashed is
decorated with ribbons, trinkets, etc.trinket
English
Noun
(en noun)- That little trinket around her neck must have cost a bundle.
- It's only a little trinket , but it reminds her of him.
- Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands.
- (Tusser)
Synonyms
* (small ornament) See also: * (item of little value) See also:Anagrams
* ----haberdashed
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- When he showed that petulant old warhorse of an artist, Horace Vernet, haberdashed with medals, Nadar had no trouble revealing a seeker of official honors.
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