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Trinket   /trˈɪŋkət/   Listen
noun
Trinket  n.  (Naut.) A three-cornered sail formerly carried on a ship's foremast, probably on a lateen yard. "Sailing always with the sheets of mainsail and trinket warily in our hands."


Trinket  n.  
1.
A knife; a cutting tool.
2.
A small ornament, as a jewel, ring, or the like.
3.
A thing of little value; a trifle; a toy.


verb
Trinket  v. i.  To give trinkets; hence, to court favor; to intrigue. (Obs.)





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"Trinket" Quotes from Famous Books



... grew lovely underneath her touch, The room was bright because it knew her smile; From her the tiniest trinket gathered much, The cheapest toy became a thing worth while; Yet here are her possessions as they were, No longer joys to set the eyes aglow; To-day, as we, they seem to mourn for her, And share the sadness that is ours ...
— All That Matters • Edgar A. Guest
... sovereigns, as Philippe of Orleans must own. To beauty belongs the use of these crown jewels. Place them as security, and borrow the two millions. For myself, I shall take pride in advancing the interest on the sum for a certain time, until such occasion as the treasury may afford the price of this trinket. In a short time it will be able to do so, I promise your Grace; indeed able to buy a dozen such stones, and take no ...
— The Mississippi Bubble • Emerson Hough
... discovered—that my desk had been broken open, and your letters found—and that, in a few hours, I was to be sent off a prisoner to an aunt in a distant part of the country. How sudden was my resolution! I had not ridden far before I alighted from the carriage, under pretence of buying something at a trinket-shop. I sent the coachman and servant away, bidding them return for me in at ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 • Various
... to Gretchen; but the locket pleased her eye. Her highness, observing her interest, slipped the trinket from her neck and laid it ...
— The Goose Girl • Harold MacGrath
... embodied nothingness had seemed to float across the world of living things, and into space the nothingness had disappeared—leaving behind a trinket and a rent scrap ...
— Robin • Frances Hodgson Burnett


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