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The meaning of BIBELOT is a small household ornament or decorative object : trinket. Did you know?
bibelot (plural bibelots) A bauble, knickknack or trinket. In her own eyes she was indeed living in a state approaching to penury, but the spectacle of her pictures, her furniture and her had impressed John with a very different idea. Barbara's glance now falls on the , which she picks up.
1. A small decorative object; a trinket. 2. A miniature book, especially one that is finely crafted. [French, from Old French beubelet, from a reduplication of bel, beautiful, from Latin bellus, handsome; see belle.] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
bibelot in American English. (ˈbɪbˌloʊ ; ˈbɪbəˌloʊ ; French biˈbloʊ ) noun. 1. a small object whose value lies in its beauty or rarity; trinket. 2. a book of unusually small size. Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
Bibelot definition: a small object of curiosity, beauty, or rarity.. See examples of BIBELOT used in a sentence.
Bibelot Definition. A small decorative object; a trinket. A small object whose value lies in its beauty or rarity; trinket. A miniature book, especially one that is finely crafted. A book of unusually small size. A bauble, knickknack or trinket.
The earliest known use of the noun bibelot is in the 1870s. OED's earliest evidence for bibelot is from 1873, in the writing of Charlotte Schreiber, translator, businesswoman, and collector. bibelot is a borrowing from French. See etymology.
2 meanings: 1. an attractive or curious trinket 2. a miniature book.... Click for more definitions.
bibelot (n.)"small curio," 1873, from French bibelot "knick-knack," from Old French beubelet "trinket, jewel" (12c.), from belbel "plaything," a reduplication of bel "pretty" (see belle).
BIBELOT translate: ornament, curio, curio. Learn more in the Cambridge French-English Dictionary.