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English
Etymology
From knick-knack + -ery.
Noun
knickknackery (uncountable)
- Various trinkets or novelties; bric-a-brac.
1837, L E L, “Chapter XII. Lady Marchmont’s Journal.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 85:As Hortense says of the gilded knicknackery of her saloon,—
"Est-ce utile?
C'est plus, c'est nécessaire."