Definition of "jimcrack" []

• Alternative spelling of gimcrack. (adjective)
• Alternative spelling of gimcrack. (noun)

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• "‘Why, what conceivable use is there in jimcrack jewellery?’"
• "Beyond the tracks untidy landing places are scattered along the water front, with here and there a tall, awkward, stern-wheel river steamer tied up, looking rather like an old-fashioned New Jersey seacoast hotel, covered with porches and jimcrack carving, painted white, embellished with a cupola and a pair of tall, thin smokestacks, and set adrift in its old age to masquerade in maritime burlesque."
• "Within her cosy little house beneath the jimcrack-tree"