Definition of "kickshaw" []

• A fancy food; a delicacy. (noun)
• A trinket; a gewgaw. (noun)

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• "Pitt would do anything to keep what he called the “French kickshaw” away."
• "No kickshaw ditties, favourites with national enemies, but ... genuine George the Third home brewed, exhorting him (as 'my brave boys') to reduce to a smashed condition all other islands but this island, and all continents, peninsulas, isthmuses, promontories, and other geographical forms of land soever, besides sweeping the sea in all directions."
• "Andover, knowing her, imagined that she had been refused some kickshaw, and thought no more about it."