Definition of "gimcracks" [gimcracks]

• Plural form of gimcrack. (noun)

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• "The ladies raise flowers, fix baskets and roses, and all that kind of gimcracks, and the men go pottering about, making more fuss over their plots of ground than a big farmer out West does over his thousands of acres."
• "How Rooney rendered "gimcracks" into Eskimo we are not prepared to say, but the whole description sent Nunaga and her mother into fits of giggling, for those simple-minded creatures of the icy north -- unlike sedate Europeans -- are easily made to laugh."
• "You really expect me to believe your Vista system, with all the gimcracks and gewgaws enabled loads up in just 24 seconds?"