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{{also|bricabrac|bric-à-brac}}
==English==
{{was wotd|2022|November|15}}

===Etymology===
{{multiple images
|direction = vertical
|image1 = Bric-à-brac shop at Woorim, Queensland.jpg
|caption1 = A bric-a-brac ''(sense 1)'' [[shop#Noun|shop]] in [[w:Woorim, Queensland|Woorim]], [[Queensland]], [[Australia]].
|image2 = Big Day Out stalls, Cambridge, July 2010 (01).JPG
|caption2 = Bric-a-brac ''(sense 1)'' on [[sale#Noun|sale]] in a [[flea market]] in [[Cambridge]], [[Cambridgeshire]], [[England]], U.K.
}}

Borrowed from {{bor|en|fr|bric-à-brac|t=miscellaneous items of little value}}, apparently from {{m|fr|à bricq et à bracq|t=at random; haphazardly}}; {{m|fr|bricq}} and {{m|fr|bracq}} are expressive {{onomatopoeic|en|title={{glossary|onomatopoeia}}s}} of obscure origin.<ref>Compare {{R:OED Online|pos=n.'' and ''adj|id=23165|date=December 2021|nodot=1}}; {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}</ref>

===Pronunciation===
* {{IPA|en|/ˈbɹɪkəbɹæk/|a=RP}}
* {{audio|en|LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-bric-a-brac.wav|a=Southern England}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈbɹɪkəˌbɹæk/|a=GA}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun|-|s}} {{term-label|en|also|attributively}}

# [[small#Adjective|Small]] [[ornament#Noun|ornaments]] and other [[miscellaneous]] [[display#Noun|display]] [[item#Noun|items]] of [[little#Adjective|little]] [[value#Noun|value]].
#: {{synonyms|en|brickety-brack|knick-knacks|Thesaurus:trinket}}
#* {{RQ:Thackeray Paris Sketch Book|volume=II|chapter=Meditations at Versailles|page=267|passage=The palace of Versailles has been turned into a '''bricabrac''' shop, of late years; and its time-honoured walls have been covered with many thousand yards of the worst pictures that eye ever looked on.}}
#* {{RQ:Thackeray Philip|volume=I|chapter=In which Philip Shows His Mettle|page=299|passage=No doubt her pleasure would have been at that moment to give him not only that gold which she had been saving up against rent-day, but the spoons, the furniture, and all the valuables of the house, including, perhaps, J. J.'s '''bricabrac''', cabinets, china, and so forth.}}
#* {{RQ:Eliot Daniel Deronda|volume=IV|chapter=LXVII|page=314|passage=Haven't an affair in the world, {{...}} except a quarrel with a '''bric-à-brac''' man.}}
#* {{RQ:Whitman Specimen Days|chapter=Emerson's Books|page=320|passage=Indeed, who wants the real animal or hunter? What would that do amid astral and '''bric-a-brac''' and tapestry, and ladies and gentlemen talking in subdued tones of [[w:Robert Browning|[Robert] Browning]] and [[w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|[Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow]] and art?}}
#* {{quote-web|en|author=HarryBlank|work=w:SCP Foundation|title=Off Track|date=22 September 2023|url=https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/25-off-track|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20240525063003/https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/25-off-track|archivedate=25 May 2024|accessdate=25 May 2024|text="Well, ''mi casa su casa,''" said Corbin as they rounded the final bend. They were standing in a cozy maintenance alcove with a sleeping roll on a memory foam mattress on the floor, a series of labelled duffel bags, a space heater and dehumidifier locked in eternal stalemate, a card table and two chairs, and a wide variety of '''bric-a-brac'''. There were safety and information posters on the walls, rips and creases showing that they'd been liberated from their original points of fixture. There were photographs mac-tac'd to conduits and concrete. There was even a sad little pot plant beneath a slowly leaking pipe — ''pot'' pot, Udo realized, and she almost smiled.}}
# {{lb|en|by extension}} Any [[collection]] [[contain]]ing a [[variety]] of miscellaneous items; a [[hodgepodge#Noun|hodgepodge]], an [[olio]].
#: {{synonyms|en|mishmash|oddments|Thesaurus:hodgepodge}}
#* {{RQ:Eliot Middlemarch|volume=III|book=V|chapter=XLIII|page=13|passage=Yes: I think he is a good fellow: rather miscellaneous and '''''bric-à-brac''''', but likable.}}

====Alternative forms====
* {{alter|en|bricabrac|bric-à-brac|brick-a-brack}}

====Derived terms====
* {{l|en|bric-a-bracker}} {{qualifier|rare}}
* {{l|en|bric-a-brackery}}, {{l|en|bric-a-bracquerie}}
* {{l|en|brickety-brack}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|small ornaments and other miscellaneous items of little value}}
* Esperanto: {{t|eo|aĵeto|alt=aĵetoj}}
* Finnish: {{t+|fi|krääsä}}, {{t+|fi|rihkama}}
* French: {{t+|fr|bric-à-brac|m}}
* German: {{t+|de|Schnickschnack|m}}, {{t+|de|Krimskrams|m}}
* Greek: {{t+|el|μπιχλιμπίδι|n}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|csecsebecse}}
* Italian: {{t|it|bric-a-brac|m}}, {{t+|it|cianfrusaglie|f-p}}, {{t+|it|ciarpame|m}}, {{t|it|paccottaglia|f}}
* Japanese: {{t|ja|瓦落多}}, {{t|ja|我楽多}}, {{t|ja|瓦落苦多}}, {{t+|ja|がらくた}}, {{t|ja|ガラクタ|tr=garakuta}}
* Polish: {{t+|pl|bambetle|m-p}} {{qualifier|informal}}, {{t|pl|bibeloty|m-p}}
* Portuguese: {{t+|pt|bricabraque|m}}, {{t|pt|porcariada|f}}, {{t+|pt|quinquilharia|f}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|брѝк-а-бра́к|m}}
* Swedish: {{t+|sv|tingeltangel|n}}
{{trans-bottom}}

{{trans-see|any collection containing a variety of miscellaneous items|hodgepodge|olio}}

===References===
<references/>

===Further reading===
* {{pedia|bric-à-brac}}
* {{R:Britannica 1911|Bric à Brac}}

{{cln|en|apophonic reduplications}}

==Italian==

===Noun===
{{it-noun|m|#}}

# {{l|en|bric-a-brac}}
#: {{synonyms|it|cianfrusaglia|ciarpame|paccottaglia}}

{{cln|it|reduplications}}

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