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gewgaw

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1. gewgaw - Noun

2. gewgaw - Adjective

Meaning

A showy trifle; a toy; a splendid plaything; a pretty but worthless bauble.

Showy; unreal; pretentious.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. John Dryden

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